[Gllug] Website developement

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On 15 Jul 2001, Stig Brautaset stipulated:
>        "Many of the important ideas of C stem from the language BCPL,
>         developed by Martin Richards. The influence of BCPL on C
>         proceeded indirectly through the language B, which was written
>         by Ken Thompson in 1970 for the first UNIX system on the DEC
>         PDP-7."
> 
> Somehow I think Kernighan would have known that he wrote B, and thus
> not tell everyone that Ken Thompson did it (unless he was very ashamed
> of B and not a very good friend of Ken Thompson ;-)

Oops, you're right, I misremembered.

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 write a shell script that handles its arguments correctly, or a
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