On 10/05/2010 02:52 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
-...@code{get_date} was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
+...@code{parse_datetime} was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
Is that the correct historical name, or should this be worded:
@code{parse_datetime} started life as @code{getdate}, as originally
implemented...
(@email{smb@@research.att.com}) while at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on
Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz (@email{rsalz@@bbn.com})
and Jim Berets (@email{jberets@@bbn.com}) in August, 1990. Various
revisions for the @sc{gnu} system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering,
-Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{parse_datetime}
+Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{get_date} and
+then to @code{parse_datetime}
given that we are documenting its renames through history? Should we
also mention the non-thread-safe getdate() POSIX function, and mention
how the two differ?
Thanks for the remaining cleanups.
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