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* Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org> [2013-08-05 20:10]: > Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote: > > And even when I say all this, I am almost certainly being > > ahistorical – I do not know in detail the lineage and history of ed > > and all its next of kin (ex/vi, grep, sed, patch etc) and would > > actually be surprised if the story weren’t more intertwined and > > complex than my portrayal, even WRT just this one aspect. > > > > (I expect Aaron to come up behind me and embarrass me now. :-) ) > > Nope, your summary pretty much covers it. :-) Wow, there’s an actual straightforward corner within Unix history. :-) > So this aspect of Perl can be dated back to code written no later than > 1970, for a text editor running on an operating system that I suspect > noone subscribed to this list has ever used. Which, to be explicit, means it predates Perl (1.0 in 1987) by nearly two decades. Not bad… > Enjoy! I did, thank you. :-) I hadn’t heard of em! Nor qed, of course, but I wouldn’t have expected to anyway. And d’oh, it was diff that I meant to mention, not patch (though patch too). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next