On 9/19/13 3:36 PM, william benton wrote:
when I log into free bsd I am in the sh shell. i type history at the
command line and the machine says history not found. If I type h at
the command line it works like i expect the history command to work.
In the csh or tcsh shells history works as
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:36:43 +, william benton wrote:
when I log into free bsd I am in the sh shell. i type history
at the command line and the machine says history not found.
If I type h at the command line it works like i expect the
history command to work.
That is strange. The sh shell
Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
there will no no next language. there is no need to have C follower.
C is perfect
Which C are you referring to here? The original KR, ANSI, or some
other variant? ANSI C is different enough from KR C -- in strength
of typing if nothing else --
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
there will no no next language. there is no need to have C follower.
C is perfect
Which C are you referring to here? The original KR, ANSI, or some
other variant? ANSI C is different enough from KR C -- in
implemented at all -- but BCPL developed a following. Someone
(at Bell Labs?) produced a derivative called B, from which a few
researchers at Murray Hill derived C. Thus the question: should
the next language in the series be named D (next alphabetically)
or P (next letter of BCPL)?
there will
On 11/14/10 20:44, Gary Kline wrote:
TWo questions: didn't IBM create CPL? And doesn't BCPL
Stand for British Computer Programming Language? (I did have
both editions of the C book by Brian and DEnnis; then loaned the
2nd edition and never got ti back.) I think
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 337, Issue 1, Message: 19
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:29:10 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my muuz game/mind-machine
effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code
CPL never amounted to much -- I don't know whether it was ever
implemented at all -- but BCPL developed a following. Someone
(at Bell Labs?) produced a derivative called B, from which a few
researchers at Murray Hill derived C. Thus the question: should
the next language in the series
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Nov 14 03:09:59 2010
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:00:35 -0800
From: per...@pluto.rain.com
To: per...@apotheon.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:00:35AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
... D is already another programming language ...
It wasn't back then :)
It is now, though, so it's a little late. So sorry.
I don't know what this P has to do with it.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:00:35AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:32:04PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote:
should the one-leter name for 'c++' be 'd' or 'p'?
(nobody could decide/agree, which *IS* why it is 'c++'
to this
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:44:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
I'd vote for E since that might have more positive
connotations that D. :-) Skip F altogether.
That might be a good point.
Google has taught me that single-letter names for programming languages
(or anything else,
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010:
Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray
(in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking Dennis
what the deal was with C++; I remember him dodging the
thing. Whoever-invented-C++ did a convoluted
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:41:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:44:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
I'd vote for E since that might have more positive
connotations that D. :-) Skip F altogether.
That might be a good point.
Google has taught me that
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:02:49PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010:
Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray
(in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking Dennis
what the deal was with C++; I remember him dodging
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:02:49PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010:
Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray
(in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking Dennis
what the deal was with C++; I remember him dodging
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 03:37:15PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:02:49PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010:
Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray
(in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my muuz game/mind-machine
effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into
C++. Figured since C++ was _the_ new language that it was a
good move. Then
On Sun 14 Nov 2010 at 16:29:10 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my muuz game/mind-machine
effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into
C++. Figured since C++ was
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:54:42PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
I'd say the Next Big Thing in the '00s was Python ... or was it XML?
Python hasn't been dominant enough. *Maybe* XML -- but that might be a
bit of a stretch. It might be a couple years before we can identify it.
Hm. Maybe
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