On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 19:06 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > An interesting little ditty, if you don't know it. Steve Bourne > really > loved ALGOL. So much so that he wrote the original shell *in* > ALGOL...kind > of. It was ostensibly 'C'...but he created an entire set of #defines > to > allow him to actually write the shell in ALGOL.
For what it's worth, I took a course in Algol 68 from Steve Bourne at Cambridge in 1972, so there you go :-) Now back to our regularly-scheduled flamewars^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h programming. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
