In <20030122144529.C8259@shimi.swcp.com>, John Red-Horse <jrredho@swcp.com> wrote: >Matt Ackeret wrote: >> >> Yeah, I know that.. But it was "swiped" from slrn, right? > >Ahem. For all of this time, I was certain that it came from strn. Did >strn's main idea come from slrn? Looking at the changes.txt file from a 1999 version of the slrn docs, scoring was added to slrn at version 0.7.8.2 - but I don't have a date to match with that version number. For trn, run `head -38 trn.c` and we see that 'rn' was started just over 20 years ago: /* This software is copyrighted as detailed in the LICENSE file. */ /* trn -- threaded readnews program based on rn 4.4 * * Author/Maintainer of trn: wayne@clari.net (Wayne Davison) * Maintainer of rn: sob@bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) * Original Author: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) * * History: * 01/14/83 - rn begun * 04/08/83 - rn 1.0 * 09/01/83 - rn 2.0 * 05/01/85 - rn 4.3 * 11/01/89 - rn/rrn integration * 11/25/89 - trn begun * 07/21/90 - trn 1.0 * 07/04/91 - rn 4.4 * 11/25/91 - trn 2.0 * 07/25/93 - trn 3.0 * ??/??/?? - trn 4.0 * * strn -- Scan(-mode)/Scoring TRN * * Author/Maintainer of strn: caadams@zynet.com (Clifford A. Adams) * * Strn history: * Dec. 90 - "Keyword RN" initial ideas, keyword entry prototype * 01/16/91 - "Scoring RN" initial design notes * Late 91 - cleaned up "Semicolon mode" RN patches from Todd Day * Early 92 - major additions to "STRN" * Mid 93 - first strn public release (version 0.8) * Sep. 94 - last beta release (version 0.9.3). * Late 95 - strn code ported to trn 4.0, universal selector started * May 96 - strn 1.0 release * */ #include "patchlevel.h" ... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp
