Dr David G Korn to speak at SVNet

[r.peterson]

>From article <2289 at plx.UUCP>, by evan at plx.UUCP (Evan Bigall):
> In article <14020085 at hpisod2.HP.COM> decot at hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>>> Under the title of "The Good, the Bad, and
>>> the Ugly", Dr. Korn will discuss programming style.  
>>
>>Not to discourage people from attending, necessarily, but has anyone
>>ever tried to read the ksh sources?
> 
> ksh was not (I believe) written from scratch, it was based on sh. 
> 
> sh contained some of the most notoriously bad sources in all of unix. 
> This has lots to do with it being very old, devloped in the infancy of 
> c and unix.

And even more to do with the fact that Bourne used the preprocessor
to turn C into a bizarre pascal-lookalike.  Truly the most difficult
code I've ever tried to modify.
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