 It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and #bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu  35 comments
Apparently because, while skin colour shouldn't matter at all, many people need to be constantly reminded of that, and that by juxtaposing simple facts like this, it might filter through for some. whyamievenpointingthisout? For a second there, I thought he was wearing a Star Trek uniform. Once that cleared, I really got excited….of all the people who need a guest star role, he is IT!!! (If he wants to.) I still prefer bash over zsh that’s the default in macos. Thank you for this hugely powerful tool! @jessebot WOW, if I would have been not for this post, I probably would have never known the face of "who actually made bash" 😮 🙂 Sometime you wonder "who made this ?" .. and so many faces you'll never see ... Cool! I met Brian in the early 1980s and used Amacs for programming on the Apple ][! I thought Brian was very cool. Earlier I had learned and used MINCE (mince is not complete emacs) on an IMSAI 8080 CPM box to write my college thesis ;-) @jessebot Love this. bash all the way. I tell my Mac to pound sand when it tries to change my shell to zsh. @jessebot In the early days of Mapbox we used to send this exact photo around whenever folks got stuck on a something in bash. It was like - here is Brian, he thinks you can figure it out, he wrote bash for exactly this sort of thing, he wants you to give it another go. @jessebot Wonderful. Avid bash user here. Let other people script in python or go, bash is where it's at. 😃 @jessebot Is it really necessary to say 'the Black American programmer'? Many people around the world make incredible contributions without such comments. @horaciodos @jessebot The post is for Black History Month. As you have noticed, Brian is Black... @jessebot I've written more Bash script than code in any other language. Its everywhere around me, and it has been for my entire career. I don't think its going to change anytime soon. He's also responsible for Readline, which is similarly, EVERYWHERE! Thank you Brian Fox! @jessebot This guy is incredible! He made BASH, built the first online banking system in the U.S., and created an open source election system. He was one of the first people at the FSF working directly with Stallman, was a primary maintainer of Emacs, founded CAVO and NAVO, and even co-wrote a piece on securing US elections with former CIA heads. And that's just from his Wikipedia article! @jessebot Wow! “At age 25 I became the first paid programmer working with Richard Stallman at the newly formed Free Software Foundation, where I worked on Project GNU, a completely free (as in speech, not as in beer) replacement for commercial Unix. I wrote the TexInfo documentation system. At age 27 I authored the Bash shell.” https://lifehacker.com/im-brian-fox-author-of-the-bash-shell-and-this-is-how-1820510600 I never knew, after 34 years of using bash! But, then, fact is, I never looked up the names and history of almost any open-source contributor. Most of open-source contributors are unknown and unthanked. Thanks for making Brian Fox Appreciation Day for me. It's a really nice, tight, clean, clear piece of code that has saved me hundreds of hours of drudgery. What, whut?? +readline, +emacs maintenance, +some other stuff I have no knowledge of? That's so cool! I love this site! @jessebot woah! didn't know this! apparently he also maintained emacs for a while. a legend!   |
Napping.Synth.Download
@jessebot noice
Worth mentioning,wikipedia also lists:
- Makeinfo
- info
- finger
- readline