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> I don’t think GNU patch shares history with Larry Wall’s original. Seems extremely unlikely to me that someone would independently write that if statement al
by asveikau 6y ago
> I don’t think GNU patch shares history with Larry Wall’s original.
Seems extremely unlikely to me that someone would independently write that if statement almost identically, with the same comment. These are very clearly descended from the same source.
- kazinator 6y ago... in a function having the same name, with a goto to an identical label name, and an error message string literal with exactly the same text, all in a file also named pch.c ...