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Re: [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson

RIP Ken Iverson

Doug McIlroy

22 Oct 2015 22 Oct '15

12:20 p.m.

Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's unprecedented expression syntax? doug

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Dan Cross

22 Oct 22 Oct

1:32 p.m.

New subject: RIP Ken Iverson

troff. I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant. On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

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Dan Cross

1:34 p.m.

New subject: RIP Ken Iverson

(Also, the 7th edition assembler, which was [is?] implicitly a major utility, if seldom invoked by itself.) On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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