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The nostalgia hits hard.

I have a silly little wiki engine I made 20 years ago. It was an exercise in trying to better learn the traditional unix text processing tools. So the page templates were in m4, sed and awk did their traditional heavy lifting for request parsing and page generation. and page history was provided by rcs. Which fit better than cvs because it provides a history per file.

https://nl1.outband.net/fossil/gami/file?name=bin/save_node&...

The whole thing is really the mother of all injection vulnerabilities but I am still half tempted to try and spin it up once more and see what happens if i put it on the public web.

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In a retirement home? /s
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Where does that leave the SCCS people?
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Killed themselves after using it for fifteen minutes. I used to have to teach a commercial "Intro to Unix" course which had a section on SCCS - shudder!
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I've never actually used SCCS was it that bad? I'd have thought that alcoholism would have been enough to numb the pain.
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> was it that bad?

I don't know - RCS just made more sense to me. And I really disliked RCS. You know some things are bad when something like CVS seems all warm and cuddly in comparison.

> I'd have thought that alcoholism would have been enough to numb the pain.

You may be right - it would certainly explain some aspects of my life since those days ;)

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