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Article #32Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
From: Larry Smith
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 20:15
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 20:15
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In article <4bbjbo$n8r@news.iwl.net>, jayg@iwl.net (Jay Goldberg) writes: >>(3) The guy who came up with the forward slash addressing in UNIX is >>a disgruntled DOS system developer that got fired without severance >>pay. >What came first. The DOS backslash or the Unix forward slash. I was under >the impression that it was the Unix forward slash that was first. What a bizarre concept. Unix came first by over a decade, and wasn't the first to use '/' even then, it was based on Multics, which was, if I recall correctly, the first major OS with hierarchical directories and which used the slash to create pathnames for them back in the 70's, and long before DOS ever came about. For crying out loud, DOS 1.0 didn't even have hierarchical directories, they were retconned into it in 2.0, in the early 80's! -- | .-. .---..---. .---. .-..-. |"In general, the art of government consists | | | |__ | | || |-< | |-< > / | in taking as much money as possible from | | `----'`-^-'`-'`-'`-'`-' `-' | one ... citizen ... to give to the other." | | My opinion alone, every word. | - Voltaire, "Money" (1764). |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!larrys From: larrys@enemax.zk3.dec.com (Larry Smith) Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.postscript,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.clipper,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups Date: 21 Dec 1995 20:15:18 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4bcf8m$v1h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <4at4t0$j5j@garden.csc.calpoly.edu> <4ba8k8$2vg@zippy.cais.net> <4bc95m$gis@zippy.cais.net> <4bbjbo$n8r@news.iwl.net> Reply-To: larrys@zk3.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: enemax.zk3.dec.com X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-5