[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 28

Caleb Cushing xenoterracide at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 11:57:00 EDT 2006


they are short because of when they were written... a computer in 1969
had less memory and processing power than your alarm clock ;-)

On 9/26/06, Eric Miller <eric.john.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Same here. ls is short for list. I guess the "logic" behind this is that
> you can remove vowels and still understand what it is combined with the
> desire to save keystrokes (lst is one key longer than ls). Some may
> think it's taken a bit to the extreme in *nix but I like the most common
> commands as short as possible. In DOS the commands are usually short
> (e.g. dir = ls).
>
> Half to admit I was confused at first, having come from a DOS
> background, by some of the tongue-in-cheek names like less = more.
>
> Remember those support calls where you had to explain to a user how to
> type "type" so they could cat a file? Most of the time I resorted to
> spelling it out. :-)
>
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > remind me to refute this in my presentation, because, sorry tom, this
> > is simply untrue, or irrelavant most commands make more sense to me
> > than in other os's and proprietary has names that are just as weird or
> > make less sense.
> >
>


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