On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:11:21 +0300 Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Larry Wall applies a patch manually quicker than GNU patch. > > GNU patch is actually a distributed version of Larry Wall: > > $ patch -v > patch 2.6 > Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall > Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > written by Larry Wall and Paul Eggert > Yes, GNU patch is based on the original patch by Larry Wall (but it has evolved a lot since then.). See: http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32866 (The comment reading "Suggested Revision".) Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang The number of items on an open source project’s to‐do list always grows or remains constant. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
