Re: "Interview with the Author of 'Mastering cat'"

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[hackers-il] "Interview with the Author of 'Mastering cat'"":
> I'm going to publish a new book for O'Reilly titled "Mastering cat". Here is 
> an interview O'Reilly-Net conducted with me about it:
> 
> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Mastering-Cat/

I have heard rumors that both 'lynx' and 'tomcat' are projects that can trace
their ancestry to the 'cat' project. Can you comment on that?

Also, is it true that both 'tac' and 'rev' were actually attempts to create
clones of 'cat', but their developers were unable to replicate cat's ingenious
algorithms, resulting in buggy algorithms which caused the input to be
reversed, something which the developers of tac and rev later said was
"a feature, not a bug"?

:-)

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