• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Richard Salz'" <rsalz@u...>,"'Rick Marshall'" <rjm@z...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:22:04 -0000

> > 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.  

I think it was already in BCPL, which Steve Bourne knew well.

Michael Kay

• References:
  • Re: XML design of ((a and b) or c)
    • From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>