What's a script?

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> 
>> Joep L. Blom wrote: [cut]
>> 
>>> We used our first Unix in 1979 acquiring 9 tapes from Bell labs
>>> and installed in on a PDP-11. It was developed as Kernigan &
>>> Richie were fed-up with the slow multitasking in the current DEC
>>> OS (I thought it was RSTS but I am not sure). Talking about old
>>> gees in computerland.... Joep
>>> 
>> Not exactly. UNIX was designed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and 
>> others, starting in 1969 after AT&T withdrew from the Multics
>> project. Brian Kernighan joined AT&T around this time and is
>> probably best known for being the 'K' in awk.
> 
> I'm sure he's really _best_ known for being the Kernighan in
> "Kernighan and Ritchie" (normally used to refer to THE C text).

I won't argue. His praises are sung for both.

Peter HB