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Interestingly enough, this video from the 1980s shows Brian Kernighan writing a one line spellchecker program in UNIX shell. Obviously, the computer that it’s r
by sabalaba 6y ago
Interestingly enough, this video from the 1980s shows Brian Kernighan writing a one line spellchecker program in UNIX shell. Obviously, the computer that it’s running on is more powerful than a 256K PC. The point stands: some people are simply living in the future.
https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0 https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0
(Shell coding starts at 8:40)
- abetlen 6y agoThey really were. Here's a version of that video that includes Lorinda Cherry writing a talking calculator by piping together 3 unix commands. https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?t=828 https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?t=828