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8796: [MUD-Dev] Re: MUD-Dev's DevMUD: a word of caution
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From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 22:49:47 +0100
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Chris Gray wrote:
> Postscript isn't software. Its a text output language. In my opinion its
> also a horrible one. Likely designed by committee or something.
Not _text_ output :). Anyway, it is to be executed, it meets some
requirements, it is a software project. And I think it is excellent...
(Except for some limitations (dictionaries, which makes encapsulated
postscript somewhat tricky))
> The first version of UNIX was done by 2 or 3 guys in their spare time, in
> order to meet their own goals. I really doubt any formal planning was done.
I think it was made by one guy, Ken Thompson, but don't forget that MULTICS
came first...
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Ola