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Does anyone know the expansion of QED and how QED is pronounced ? Jay 14:04, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't the title be QED in capitals ? Jay 09:09, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have no reference but I know that FRED and UNIX QED were "grown" for many years and became quite powerful tools. Very different from EMACS, perhaps more like the Bourne Shell plus Perl. They were powerful scripting platforms.
Because the command language was designed for interactive editing, it is extremely terse and hence scripts can be hard to read.
I think that the scripting was sufficiently different that one would not contemplate moving a script between implementations. I know FRED's idea of quoting was very different from UNIX QED's. (Example: to quote a character to prevent it being evaluated during n interpretation passes took 2^n -1 backslashes in FRED but one backslash plus n-1 "c" characters on UNIX QED. \\\\\\\f vs \ccf) DHR ( talk) 21:22, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
The link "An incomplete history of the QED text editor" is broken at the moment. The google cache however has an archived version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rvh1IEHF2KcJ:cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/qed.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=en Hermel ( talk) 11:19, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
A version of QED was available for MVS/TSO (System/370) in the early 1980's. I installed it at the USC University Computing Center's Academic MVS system. I believe I may have a manual, if that would be appropriate to scan in and save. The link (which is working today) https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html has a reference to the TSO version. Larryplo ( talk) 16:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
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Does anyone know the expansion of QED and how QED is pronounced ? Jay 14:04, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't the title be QED in capitals ? Jay 09:09, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have no reference but I know that FRED and UNIX QED were "grown" for many years and became quite powerful tools. Very different from EMACS, perhaps more like the Bourne Shell plus Perl. They were powerful scripting platforms.
Because the command language was designed for interactive editing, it is extremely terse and hence scripts can be hard to read.
I think that the scripting was sufficiently different that one would not contemplate moving a script between implementations. I know FRED's idea of quoting was very different from UNIX QED's. (Example: to quote a character to prevent it being evaluated during n interpretation passes took 2^n -1 backslashes in FRED but one backslash plus n-1 "c" characters on UNIX QED. \\\\\\\f vs \ccf) DHR ( talk) 21:22, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
The link "An incomplete history of the QED text editor" is broken at the moment. The google cache however has an archived version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rvh1IEHF2KcJ:cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/qed.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=en Hermel ( talk) 11:19, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
A version of QED was available for MVS/TSO (System/370) in the early 1980's. I installed it at the USC University Computing Center's Academic MVS system. I believe I may have a manual, if that would be appropriate to scan in and save. The link (which is working today) https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html has a reference to the TSO version. Larryplo ( talk) 16:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)