Thursday, October 13, 2011
Dennis Ritchie just died.
The first big system I ever developed, CTAPS, was done in C and SQL on a MicroVAX III running Ultrix. We even had GKS to display maps and allow for very crude airspace deconfliction.
Anyway, having been working in FORTRAN 77 on a VAX 11/782 running VMS 4.7, it was such a pleasure to have utilities like sed, awk, make, grep, cut, vi, ctags, etc., along with the UNIX pipe-and-filter approach to attaching them. Working as I did on both MS/DOS and UNIX operating systems, I can't begin to tell you how many times I loaded a file into vi and issued the command ":1,$s/^M//g".
As for the C programming language itself, well, after FORTRAN it was like I had died and gone to heaven.
I seem to recall that Vernor Vinge has a couple of science fiction books set hundreds of years in the future that reference nano-computers that run, yes, UNIX. I believe it likely.
The first big system I ever developed, CTAPS, was done in C and SQL on a MicroVAX III running Ultrix. We even had GKS to display maps and allow for very crude airspace deconfliction.
Anyway, having been working in FORTRAN 77 on a VAX 11/782 running VMS 4.7, it was such a pleasure to have utilities like sed, awk, make, grep, cut, vi, ctags, etc., along with the UNIX pipe-and-filter approach to attaching them. Working as I did on both MS/DOS and UNIX operating systems, I can't begin to tell you how many times I loaded a file into vi and issued the command ":1,$s/^M//g".
As for the C programming language itself, well, after FORTRAN it was like I had died and gone to heaven.
I seem to recall that Vernor Vinge has a couple of science fiction books set hundreds of years in the future that reference nano-computers that run, yes, UNIX. I believe it likely.
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