The other film:
"The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use"
AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System
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#12I find this far more compelling for anthropological reasons than technical ones.
I couldn't possibly disagree more.
The composition of programs through pipes remains a brilliant idea, and an extremely effective way to get a job done. I've lost track of the number of times I've heard a new programming tool described as "It's like Unix pipes for..."
C is still a remarkably popular programming language, and it has proven surprisingly hard to invent a new language that's better than C in every respect.
Many people could benefit from the ability to connect multiple programs in the shell to get a job done, even if they're not programmers.
It's hard for me to think of any computer scientists whose work remains as relevant today as the people in this video.
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#13I find this far more compelling for anthropological reasons than technical ones.
I think it was shared for its historical interest. While the gist of unix presented here is the same as the unix we know today, obviously many things have changed since the 1980s.
Most of the big concepts underlying Unix described in the video still apply very well to Unix today.
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#14Lots of female developers in this video. What happened?
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#15Also nice to see Alfred Aho(One of the creators of Awk).
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it was shared for its historical interest. While the gist of unix presented here is the same as the unix we know today, obviously many things have changed since the 1980s.
Most of the big concepts underlying Unix described in the video still apply very well to Unix today.
Right. I don't think I've heard of makewords or 'p' to print out a file, although gnu obviously has its substitutes ;)
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#17Lots of female developers in this video. What happened?
I was going to mention that. I could recognize Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, and Ken Thompson, but I have never heard of Lorinda Cherry [1]. Apparently, I should have, because she essentially inspired gnu plot utils, which must have had some influence on future plot utilities(?)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry
edit: made a correction, oops
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#18Lots of female developers in this video. What happened?
As that one dude said at the beginning (after the guy who looks like Carl Sagan a little bit), the women in this video are not necessarily developers, but can program. At the time, I believe programming was largely done by women...the women would program the computers, while the men would design and build them. But that programming wasn't really "development", per se, it was more like grunt work. At least, this is the impression I get from conversations with my grandfather, who worked with Dr. John Mauchley on the ENIAC computer and helped found the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, one of the (if not THE) first corporations dedicated to producing computers.
Although ENIAC and such were the official start of the computing industry, the way you interacted with early computers was much different from the way you interact with the UNIX system, and thus, practically everything that's come afterward. So in many ways, this is the real start of the computing industry, to me anyways.
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#19Lots of female developers in this video. What happened?
I was going to mention that. I could recognize Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, and Ken Thompson, but I have never heard of Lorinda Cherry [1]. Apparently, I should have, because she essentially inspired gnu plot utils, which must have had some influence on future plot utilities(?) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry edit: made a correction, oops
I don't know that gnuplot wasn't inspired by her work (it might have been). The wiki article you linked mentions GNU plotutils, which is different than gnuplot (gnuplot is not affiliated with GNU).
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going to mention that. I could recognize Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, and Ken Thompson, but I have never heard of Lorinda Cherry [1]. Apparently, I should have, because she essentially inspired gnu plot utils, which must have had some influence on future plot utilities(?) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry edit: made a correction, oops
I don't know that gnuplot wasn't inspired by her work (it might have been). The wiki article you linked mentions GNU plotutils, which is different than gnuplot (gnuplot is not affiliated with GNU).
Right you are, made an edit.