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mek6800d2
on May 8, 2022
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Unix command line conventions over time
I haven't looked at this in years, but IIRC Knuth's program could be built and run on almost any OS that had a Pascal (?) compiler, whereas McIlroy's solution obviously required a Unix-like shell, piping, and the necessary commands/tools.
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