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Comment by ohdeardear

17 hours ago

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> When was the last time that the author of "grep" was recognized as a great programmer? Never.

Ken Thompson wrote grep, and he is definitely recognised as such.

  • man -T grep | grep 'Free Soft\|Thom'

      (Cop)108 348 Q(yright 1998-2000, 2002, 2005-2023 Free Softw)-.1 E(are F)
    

    Sure, he wrote _a_ version of grep, and probably the first, but who cares? "The" (sure, you might run some bsd grep) current version of grep certainly doesn't.

    • No, he wrote grep. Before he wrote it there was no grep. And yes, he's recognized as a great programmer. With Multics, Unix, B, C, UTF-8 Plan9, Inferno and grep to his name (and probably others that I forgot) he has more than deserved that.

      Future grep versions, including the FSF one, were all re-implementations.

      Your statement in the GP is nonsensical.

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    • I'm just saying this is incorrect:

      > When was the last time that the author of "grep" was recognized as a great programmer? Never.

      He is recognised as that. Your opinion on him is nothing to do with anything.