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5 unusual facts about Stephen Bourne


CA module series

Swords of Deceit (CA2) was written for character levels 10–15 by Stephen Bourne, Ken Rolston, Steve Mecca, and Michael Dobson and published in 1986.

Elisabeth Welch

Stephen Bourne, Elisabeth Welch – Soft Lights and Sweet Music (foreword by Ned Sherrin) (2005, Scarecrow Press) ISBN 0-8108-5413-9

PWB shell

In particular, Environment variables and related machinery were designed by Stephen Bourne, John Mashey, and Dennis Ritchie as a general mechanism to replace the earlier, more limited features.

These features could not overcome the shortcomings of the Thompson shell, and so a new shell was written from scratch by Stephen Bourne.

Unix shell

The Bourne shell, sh, was written by Stephen Bourne at AT&T as the original Unix command line interpreter; it introduced the basic features common to all the Unix shells, including piping, here documents, command substitution, variables, control structures for condition-testing and looping and filename wildcarding.


ALGOL 68C

The compiler and language were initially developed by Stephen Bourne and Michael Guy as a dialect of ALGOL 68.


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