12 Dec
2013
12 Dec
'13
10:50 p.m.
http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20131211/ Earlier today Stephen Johnson, in a mailing list run by the The Unix Heritage Society <http://www.tuhs.org/>, described the birth of the /standard error/ concept: the idea that a program's error output is sent on a channel different from that of its normal output. Over the past forty years, all major operating systems and language libraries have embraced this concept. ...