9 Nov
2015
9 Nov
'15
3:14 a.m.
cpio, expr, xargs, yacc, and lex first appeared
outside
the Bell Labs boundary in the PWB release
This gently corrects a statement in my posting: the name
of one of the PWB-originated programs is expr, not eval.
Doug
9 Nov
9 Nov
3:32 a.m.
New subject: PWB contributions
Doug McIlroy scripsit:
This gently corrects a statement in my posting: the
name
of one of the PWB-originated programs is expr, not eval.
Not intentionally! I figured that eval was some part of the
RJE system (core to PWB, of course) that I had never heard of.
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