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Tag Archives: Unix
Brian Kernighan & Ken Thompson Chat
Last Saturday at the Vintage Computer Festival East, Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson sat down and chatted about some Unix history and other interesting events in Thompson’s life. The chat was billed as “Kernighan interviewing Thompson” but it was really … Continue reading
A History of the Development of C
Someone posted a pointer to an old (1994) paper of Dennis Ritchie on the development of the C language. I haven’t read it in years and it was interesting to revisit it. The paper, along with several others describing aspects … Continue reading
Some Wisdom on Pipelines
Over at his blog, Ted Dziuba has posted a valuable piece of wisdom that is easy to forget. The TL;DR on the wisdom is that many tasks for which we instinctively turn to heavy-weight, distributed tools are more easily and … Continue reading
What wc Means by Lines
Every Unix/Linux user (and maybe Windows users too) is familiar with the wc command that counts characters, words, and lines. It an easy way to see how large a text file is and is often useful in scripts when you … Continue reading
Unix and Linux History from Maddog
Older readers may know of Jon “Maddog” Hall. Although we hear less from him these days, he’s been a force in the open source movement for many years. I just came across a video in which he talks about Unix … Continue reading
The History of cat
Over at Two-Bit History Sinclair Target makes the case that although it seems as if computer technology is always advancing and changing, we are still using software that is virtually unchanged from the dawn of the computer age. As a … Continue reading
Rob Pike’s Personal Unix History
Rob Pike gave an really nice talk on Unix hisotry as he experienced it. If you’re a Unix-head you already know who Pike is. If not, Pike was one of the researchers at Bell Labs who worked on Unix and … Continue reading
Little Languages
Last month, I wrote about one of John Bentley’s Programming Pearls columns in the Communication of the ACM. Someone has posted another column, this one on Little Languages. I remember reading the column in More Programming Pearls; it instilled in … Continue reading
Happy Birthday DMR
Today is Dennis Ritchie’s birthday. Take a moment to remember the man who, along with Ken Thompson, invented Unix and changed our world. Those of us in computer related fields would be working in a completely different environment were it … Continue reading
Afterword to Kernighan’s Grep Video
Speaking of Brian Kernighan, grep, and codas, there’s a (very) short afterward to Kernighan’s excellent video telling the story of the origin of greps’s name. At the end of that video (if you haven’t watched it, you definitely should) Kernighan … Continue reading