Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 16:18:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh sh.1 Message-ID: <200205262018.g4QKIC2b094091@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020526110330.A15389@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <200205251218.g4PCIRf58586@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020526165618.C6316@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020526110330.A15389@FreeBSD.ORG>
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<<On Sun, 26 May 2002 11:03:31 -0700, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> said: > It might be more appropriate to say "A bourne shell first appeared as .Nm in > ..." It's not *a* Bourne Shell, it's *the* (Stephen R.) Bourne Shell -- although I'd be curious to find the earliest reference in which Bourne's Shell is called thus. -GAWollman PS: Just don't make me look at the source code again... >shudder<! -- Garrett A. Wollman | [G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of wollman@lcs.mit.edu | chemical processes. Genes do not make ``novelty- Opinions not those of| seeking'' or any other complex and overt behavior. MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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