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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index bc41fb24..2da2a246 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -33761,14 +33761,27 @@ ORA uses filename, thus the macro. Suggestions: ------------ -Enhance FIELDWIDTHS with some way to indicate "the rest of the record". -E.g., a length of 0 or -1 or something. May be "n"? - -Make FIELDWIDTHS be an array? - % Next edition: -% 1. Talk about common extensions, those in nawk, gawk, mawk -% 2. Use @code{foo} for variables and @code{foo()} for functions -% 3. Standardize the error messages from the functions and programs +% 1. Standardize the error messages from the functions and programs % in Chapters 12 and 13. -% 4. Nuke the BBS stuff and use something that won't be obsolete +% 2. Nuke the BBS stuff and use something that won't be obsolete + +From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> +Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:55:25 -0400 +To: arnold@skeeve.com +Subject: Re: origin of the term "cookie"? + +I believe the term "cookie", for a more or less inscrutable +saying or crumb of information, was injected into Unix +jargon by Bob Morris, who used the word quite frequently. +It had no fixed meaning as it now does in browsers. + +The word had been around long before it was recognized in +the 8th edition glossary (earlier editions had no glossary): + +cookie a peculiar goodie, token, saying or remembrance +returned by or presented to a program. [I would say that +"returned by" would better read "produced by", and assume +responsibility for the inexactitude.] + +Doug McIlroy |