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gjtorikian on March 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrot...

I feel absolutely idiotic to not have known that the Bourne shell was actually named after a Mr. Bourne. I just assumed it was an acronym or something.

ptaipale on March 18, 2015 [–]

You never saw that matryoshka doll book?

http://www.amazon.com/System-International-Computer-Science-...

It was somewhat outdated by late 80's but it was still "the book" for newcomers to Unix environments.

Next, look up what AWK stands for...

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