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- From: lithgow@upjomon.usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Authorship (Was: Disasters?)
- Message-ID: <9208210142.AA26159@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:34:09 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- [Stephen Burke says:]
- >Going off on a tangent, why don't Acorn manuals have authors? I'm sure
- >*someone* must write them; have Acorn marketing decided that we should see them
- >as a faceless single entity, or are the authors just too ashamed to admit
- >it? :-)
-
- It's probably just tradition.
-
- Have a look at an AT&T or USL UNIX manual sometime. In fact, have a look
- at the code some time (on second thoughts, don't, it may be embarrassing
- ;->).
-
- None of this stuff has authors names in it, unless it comes from Bell
- Labs (recently, not originally, since it all came from Bell Labs) or
- outside, such as ksh (which doesn't really need a name on it, anyway).
-
- The only way to find out who wrote what is to look up the sccs history of
- the code -- a history only available to people who work here. I would
- guess Acorn has a similar setup.
-
- On a different tack -- lots of Acorn (and Computer Concepts) stuff is
- written in Assembler. I'm interested in whether the source is merely
- simple assembler, or whether extensive macro-usage, etc. makes the
- programs look like a 'mid-level' language. Can anyone tell me?
-
- -Malcolm. lithgow@usl.com These are merely my opinions.
-