Comments on: The Bourne Supremacy https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/08/the-bourne-supremacy/ Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:53:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: NevilleDNZ https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/08/the-bourne-supremacy/#comment-532168 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:53:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/08/the-bourne-supremacy/#comment-532168 I think you are quoting Landon Curt Noll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landon_Curt_Noll

He is famous for discovering two very large prime numbers and starting IOCCC.

Quote:
Q: How did the IOCCC get started?
A: One day (23 March 1984 to be exact), back Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting group, we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code. Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code #defined to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the finger program from early BSD (a bug ridden finger implementation to be sure). We happened to both wander (at the same time) out to the hallway in Building 7C to clear our heads.

You can find some other examples of Algol68 at:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/ALGOL_68

N

]]> By: Brian X https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/08/the-bourne-supremacy/#comment-532167 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:26:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/08/the-bourne-supremacy/#comment-532167 Pioneer though he may be, the original code for the Bourne shell was a horrifying, Ratfor-like hack of C to make it look like an ALGOL dialect. While one could make the case that it was the first time the Unix shell was done right, if you should need the Bourne code, you’re better off using Sun’s version from OpenSolaris.

]]> By: Tony P https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/08/the-bourne-supremacy/#comment-532166 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:40:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/08/the-bourne-supremacy/#comment-532166 I’m a BASH fan myself. For those who don’t know it stands for the Bourne Again SHell.

]]>