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coldtea on Dec 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Newly discovered earliest draft of a Unix manual (...

What part of it sounds like a joke? That's how it is today too, but it wasn't the case at the time for all environments.

AndyMcConachie on Dec 28, 2015 [–]

The use of a semicolon in the preceding sentence is what I thought might be the joke. Read the sentence again, Dennis's use of a semicolon is a rather strange way to punctuate the sentence.

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