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Now you've got me curious which came first, "paste" or "zip". Python's zip function was added in PEP 201 [1], which credits the Haskell 98 report with the name

Now you've got me curious which came first, "paste" or "zip". Python's zip function was added in PEP 201 [1], which credits the Haskell 98 report with the name. The same function appears in all prior versions of the Haskell language that I could find, dating back to Haskell 1.0 in 1990. On the other hand, the GNU coreutils version of paste[2] has copyright dates going all the way back to 1984, which presumably means it was derived from UNIX System V or an even earlier version. [1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0201/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0201/ [2]: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/paste.c https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/paste...

nicoburns 5y ago
It's possible a lisp of some sort predated the Haskell version
LukeShu 5y ago
The FreeBSD man page for `paste` claims it first appeared in Unix 32V (1979; derived from v7 Unix, and ancestral to both 4BSD and SysV).
- mprovost 5y ago
  Here's the commit from 1978: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32V-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/cmd/paste.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32... The comments refer to an "old 127 paste command" but I have no idea what that is.
  - LukeShu 5y ago
    I hadn't pursued it further than seeing that it was added in an 1978 commit. Looking at it further, there are a few answers at https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.html https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.h... > GWRL stands for Gottfried W. R. Luderer, the author of cut(1) and paste(1), probably around 1978. Those came either from PWB or USG I can verify that neither cut nor past were in PWB 1: https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1 https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1 > Also "127" was the internal department number for the Computer Science Research group at Bell Labs where UNIX originated
camhutch 5y ago
The miranda language (which predates haskell) had a zip function. According to wikipedia, miranda was released in 1985, but I dont know if zip was in the standard miranda environment back then. The comments in the source code say: The following is included for compatibility with Bird and Wadler (1988). The normal Miranda style is to use the curried form `zip2'. > zip :: ([*],[**])->[(*,**)] > zip (x,y) = zip2 x y which suggests a slightly later origination of zip.

nicoburns 5y ago

It's possible a lisp of some sort predated the Haskell version

LukeShu 5y ago

The FreeBSD man page for `paste` claims it first appeared in Unix 32V (1979; derived from v7 Unix, and ancestral to both 4BSD and SysV).

mprovost 5y ago
Here's the commit from 1978: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32V-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/cmd/paste.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32... The comments refer to an "old 127 paste command" but I have no idea what that is.
- LukeShu 5y ago
  I hadn't pursued it further than seeing that it was added in an 1978 commit. Looking at it further, there are a few answers at https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.html https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.h... > GWRL stands for Gottfried W. R. Luderer, the author of cut(1) and paste(1), probably around 1978. Those came either from PWB or USG I can verify that neither cut nor past were in PWB 1: https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1 https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1 > Also "127" was the internal department number for the Computer Science Research group at Bell Labs where UNIX originated

camhutch 5y ago

The miranda language (which predates haskell) had a zip function. According to wikipedia, miranda was released in 1985, but I dont know if zip was in the standard miranda environment back then. The comments in the source code say: The following is included for compatibility with Bird and Wadler (1988). The normal Miranda style is to use the curried form `zip2'. > zip :: ([*],[**])->[(*,**)] > zip (x,y) = zip2 x y which suggests a slightly later origination of zip.