GNU bug report logs - #10013
[ls] document origin of name

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Ian Bruntlett <ianbruntlett <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ian Bruntlett <ianbruntlett <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: 10013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eblake <at> redhat.com
Subject: bug#10013: man ls
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.
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