• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
• To: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:14:41 -0500

> blame stephen bourne (i think he started this).
> 
> The famous sh script: programA && programB etc where programB is only 
> run if programA returns true.

Nope, it was a C thing.  (The Bourne shell implemented the sort-circuit 
operators, but itself was implemented in Algol-like C; 
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/cmd.c.html)

        /r$

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