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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mstdn.social/users/JohnMashey/statuses/110233028103782303">JohnMashey (johnmashey@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 14:14:20 JST</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey" title="johnmashey@mstdn.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/253004-48-20240331203003.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="JohnMashey" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">JohnMashey</a><div><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110233016184789076" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer">@jwildeboer</a> And as another Kernighan story, related to AWK, try short thread about a real telco application built with awk scripts, whos printout surprised Brian:<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110103301307131222" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110103301307131222</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4922461#notice-9644035">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-20T14:14:20+09:00" title="Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 14:14:20 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110233028103782303" rel="external" title="Sent from mstdn.social via ActivityPub">mstdn.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110233028103782303">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110103301307131222">JohnMashey (@JohnMashey@mstdn.social)</a></h5><div> from <span>JohnMashey</span></div></header><div>@amoroso@fosstodon.org
1 of 4/ Cable Repair Adminstrative System(CRAS) was Bell Labs software built late 1970s for telcos:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1982.tb04342.x (sorry paywall), 
From that paper:
Lines of code
16K PL/I (part on IBM mainframe, rest on UNIX)
10K C
15K Shell (mostly awk, for data transforms &amp; reports)
 6K Misc
33K documentation
This was done to move fast, adapt to real needs in the field(1st Field Trial Boston, 2nd in Southwest Bell, who told us on 1st meeting they did things different than Yankees.)</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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JohnMashey (johnmashey@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 14:14:20 JSTJohnMashey
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@jwildeboer And as another Kernighan story, related to AWK, try short thread about a real telco application built with awk scripts, whos printout surprised Brian:
https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110103301307131222
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  @amoroso@fosstodon.org 1 of 4/ Cable Repair Adminstrative System(CRAS) was Bell Labs software built late 1970s for telcos: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1982.tb04342.x (sorry paywall), From that paper: Lines of code 16K PL/I (part on IBM mainframe, rest on UNIX) 10K C 15K Shell (mostly awk, for data transforms & reports) 6K Misc 33K documentation This was done to move fast, adapt to real needs in the field(1st Field Trial Boston, 2nd in Southwest Bell, who told us on 1st meeting they did things different than Yankees.)

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