Subject: Re: bug#10013: man ls

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:17:02 -0800

On 11/11/2011 10:38 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> My source was James O. Coplien at an ACCU conference in Oxford some
> years ago. I didn't want to drop names.
Completely understandable.  Coplien is a good source,
but he was at Bell Labs loooong after "ls" was created.
I'd like something a little closer to the horse's mouth.
The people I'm thinking about were in the Bell Labs
software group during the 1970s.  I'll ask one or two
of them privately.