[Novalug] competent sys admins

William Sutton william@trilug.org
Tue Apr 28 16:20:55 EDT 2015


Authoritative source for that story is at 
http://news.slashdot.org/story/01/02/06/2030205/david-korn-tells-all

William Sutton

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, John Holland wrote:

> There was a story I heard long ago. Microsoft was starting to make nice with UNIX and they invited some luminaries to Redmond. During the question and answer period, someone kept asking about the microsoft ksh implementation and said it was wrong. The M$ guy kept saying he was sure M$ was right. Finally the M$ guy said "who are you to know so much about the korn shell?" The answer came back:  "David Korn".
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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 04:00:28PM -0400, Peter Larsen via Novalug wrote:
>> If you really want to have some fun, look at the CentOs mailing list
>> discussing shells. They're going WAY back on Korn shell and the people
>> there are those who were involved writing the darn thing - I even saw
>> references to shell features implemented in 1982 by one of the
>> participants.
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>> Gotta love Open Source :)
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>> On 04/28/2015 03:43 PM, William Sutton wrote:
>>> So that explains ksh.  I had to use it on RS6000's a few years ago and
>>> considered it almost as bad as csh.
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>>> William Sutton
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>>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Peter Larsen via Novalug wrote:
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>>>> and please do ask us to clarify if an answer is gibberish to you. Nobody
>>>> is going to look at you strange because you didn't happen to be around
>>>> when HPUX implemented ksh and had all kinds of strange things happen to
>>>> it ;)
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>>>>  Peter Larsen
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