doctorwhom, 2 months ago Have you ever gone off about the history of certain #Unix commands at work written in the 1970's for five minutes before you realize nobody cares? Yes! No, no. Just me. sigh #Linux
Have you ever gone off about the history of certain #Unix commands at work written in the 1970's for five minutes before you realize nobody cares?
Yes! No, no. Just me. sigh
#Linux
josephholsten, 2 months ago @doctorwhom Only five minutes? Probably not, no.
@doctorwhom Only five minutes? Probably not, no.
doctorwhom, 2 months ago @josephholsten Yea know, you can tell you should stop when you get to 1973's grep command.
@josephholsten
Yea know, you can tell you should stop when you get to 1973's grep command.
grep
josephholsten, 2 months ago @doctorwhom Which you couldn’t really conceive of before Ken Thompson came out with the 1968 version of QED for CTSS using regular expressions instead of plain string match: https://cacm.acm.org/research/programming-techniques-regular-expression-search-algorithm/ Also, having all the C. @ACM back issues is great!
@doctorwhom Which you couldn’t really conceive of before Ken Thompson came out with the 1968 version of QED for CTSS using regular expressions instead of plain string match: https://cacm.acm.org/research/programming-techniques-regular-expression-search-algorithm/
Also, having all the C. @ACM back issues is great!
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