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Why isn’t there a bash conference? Someone is missing a golden opportunity to organize Bash Bash.

by Alex3917 8y ago

kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
Nobody's willing to shell out for it.
- DonHopkins 8y ago
  I always wanted to attend a "yes" conference. y y y y y .... I heard they were a lot of arguments at the Gnu "cat" conference.
  - marcosdumay 8y ago
    My computer has "true" version 8.26, and I miss some place I can go to discover what's new from version 8.25.
    - qznc 8y ago
      The history of GNU true: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=history;f=src/true.c;h=8f53b4b537b94b387e0f211502ec04f3ad113aaf;hb=HEAD http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=histor... For clarification, you are using coreutils 8.26 which includes true among other things.
      - marcosdumay 8y ago
        Yes, it was in jest. The result of "true --version" is actually quite extent, bringing licensing and authorship information and a short explanation of the GPL.
        TripleCrown 8y ago
        Just a reminder, this is Hacker News. Having a sense of humor is against the community guidelines.
        SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
        You created a new account just to say this?
  - parski 8y ago
    $ yes no
liftbigweights 8y ago
Maybe they started a dash conference and made a dash for it?
theoh 8y ago
This is a good example. C made the transition from "hot new platform" to "infrastructural millstone" before conferences on trendy programming topics were a thing. The original Bourne Shell was written in an odd preprocessed dialect of C called "Bournegol". I'm sure this was analogous to the kind of innovative techniques people present at conferences today. http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html Maybe someone else can comment authoritatively on how ideas and techniques were disseminated in the early days if Unix and C. My guess is that it happened through listservs and Usenet, thus reaching even isolated Unix installations who wouldn't have been funded to attend a central conference, if that had been thought of. In Ireland I know that in the 70s there were local meetings of DECUS, for users of Digital Equipment Corp hardware and software. I don't know about Unix.

Why isn’t there a bash conference? Someone is missing a golden opportunity to organize Bash Bash.

kevin_thibedeau 8y ago

Nobody's willing to shell out for it.

DonHopkins 8y ago
I always wanted to attend a "yes" conference. y y y y y .... I heard they were a lot of arguments at the Gnu "cat" conference.
- marcosdumay 8y ago
  My computer has "true" version 8.26, and I miss some place I can go to discover what's new from version 8.25.
  - qznc 8y ago
    The history of GNU true: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=history;f=src/true.c;h=8f53b4b537b94b387e0f211502ec04f3ad113aaf;hb=HEAD http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=histor... For clarification, you are using coreutils 8.26 which includes true among other things.
    - marcosdumay 8y ago
      Yes, it was in jest. The result of "true --version" is actually quite extent, bringing licensing and authorship information and a short explanation of the GPL.
      - TripleCrown 8y ago
        Just a reminder, this is Hacker News. Having a sense of humor is against the community guidelines.
        SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
        You created a new account just to say this?
- parski 8y ago
  $ yes no

liftbigweights 8y ago

Maybe they started a dash conference and made a dash for it?

theoh 8y ago

This is a good example. C made the transition from "hot new platform" to "infrastructural millstone" before conferences on trendy programming topics were a thing. The original Bourne Shell was written in an odd preprocessed dialect of C called "Bournegol". I'm sure this was analogous to the kind of innovative techniques people present at conferences today. http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html Maybe someone else can comment authoritatively on how ideas and techniques were disseminated in the early days if Unix and C. My guess is that it happened through listservs and Usenet, thus reaching even isolated Unix installations who wouldn't have been funded to attend a central conference, if that had been thought of. In Ireland I know that in the 70s there were local meetings of DECUS, for users of Digital Equipment Corp hardware and software. I don't know about Unix.