On Fri Mar 17 08:25:34 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Wouldn't at least gcc be from the MIT culture given its originator was
> from the mit ai lab? Where's readline and info from originally?
> Not to mention emacs.
stallman left the mit lab in 1983/4. this was before gcc, readline,
or (tex)info. i think gnu has to be considered seperately because rms
started with the gnu manifesto before he wrote any (much) code for gnu.
i'm not sure when readline started but i believe that it started life
as part of bash. this is from the readline-2.0 ChangeLog.
Wed Jun 28 20:20:51 1989 Brian Fox (bfox at aurel)
* Made readline and history into independent libraries.
there are also some references to bash in the readline-2.0 source.
>
> Where did the --option syntax originate? Maybe they wanted to say /option
> but that's not possible under Unix. Wouldn't the -o vs
> --very-long-option-name
> count as a MH vs. MIT artifact?
>
i don't know who invented the --gnu-system-long-option-syntax-option
but i'm pretty sure it was invented to disambguated betwen a multicharacter
option and a sequence of single character options. imho, just trying to
parse the long option first and a little common sense could have been enough.
- erik
