I don't know... I've only read that Larry Wall wanted a better way for working with Sed and Awk than was available. Much is not easily accessible from before ~1992 when Larry Wall open sourced perl.

As per Linux, I was pretty sure, that was also built out of the free time of Linus Torvalds, as a basement project to see if he could actually make something as good as Minix. Now, I know I will tick off the Minix users on this forum, but I think that Linus created something slightly better than Minix :)

OpenOffice, I will agree with. Though that was more that Linux wanted to grow as a Desktop OS, rather than just as server OS. Unix and C grew together. New features in C allowed for new features in Unix. New features in Unix allowed for new features in C. C, was a logical extension of BPL(I think it was BPL), which never really grew in spite of languages... just an evolutionary matter.

-- Jamie Payne

In reply to Re^4: Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI by dakedesu
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