14 Jan
2021
14 Jan
'21
16:39
On 2021-01-14 12:41, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 13/01/2021 19.48, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
I'm always fascinated by the bizarre mental gymnastics that programmers go through when naming their programs.:-) I would expect a program designed for recording terminal dialog to be called 'record'. Absolutely!
Well, there's all kinds of naming schemes and just this particular one I think we have to excuse. Script is from 3BSD released 1979. "Script" produced a typescript (typewritten and not by hand as manuscript), or script for short. 3BSD from that year man ./usr/man/man1/script.1 | tail -1 3rd Berkeley Distribution 8/1/79 SCRIPT(1) -- /bengan