From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: history of argv (was: Re: How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files?)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 17:14:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lg7k2v4w.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1481.1538225108.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> BTW I always thought, without thinking about
>> it, that "argv" is a convention in and from
>> the C programming language! But Lisp is
>> older than C (1958 to 1972; Elisp in
>> particular tho a 1985 youngster) so perhaps
>> it is the other way around?
>
> Though Lisp is older than C, it hasn't been
> static that entire time. It's not surprising
> to me that particular implementations would
> adapt to the ecosystems in which they are
> dropped (especially, as with Unix, that
> becomes the largest installed base for
> a couple decades), then pick those
> adaptations up and take them to other
> environments. I suspect that if Multics was
> still the main Emacs ecosystem, we'd see
> Multics-like names at the boundaries.
> In fact, they might be there and I just don't
> recognize them. <wink>
Riiight... so it *is* from C?
Multics was first released in 1969 while work
started at MIT as early as 1965 [1].
The first Unix manual was published in 1971 and
it appeared outside of Bell in 1973.
Work on Unix started in 1969.
The word "Unix" should be a pun/joke on
"Multics", right? Because Multics was supposed
to be multi-user, only wasn't, while Unix,
despite its name, is...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
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2018-09-29 11:32 ` How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files? Emanuel Berg
2018-09-29 12:04 ` history of argv (was: Re: How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files?) Emanuel Berg
2018-09-29 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-09-29 23:20 ` John Yates
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2018-09-30 18:20 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-09-29 15:14 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-09-29 18:07 ` Barry Margolin
2018-09-29 21:20 ` James K. Lowden
2018-09-30 19:47 ` How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files? Gerald Wildgruber
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2018-09-30 20:28 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-10-01 9:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-10-01 14:37 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-01 15:21 ` Robert Pluim
2018-10-02 12:11 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-02 15:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-03 10:11 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-03 23:52 ` Noam Postavsky
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2018-10-03 14:12 ` Emanuel Berg
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