From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why Plan 9 uses $ifs instead of $IFS?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:35:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W48-CO2qLA1_8X5RBuJDFuzxu836_ihGQPGad40gLeKog@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHL7psEBCyXzTxOjVnvE9J=zgAAKdWeuY53Ss=2ugdaRY=pQ3g@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
> Also, why NPROC has been left uppercase? :-)
I once had a mathematics professor who advised me not to look for
rationality or logic in nomenclature. I've found that, since taking
this advice to heart, my life is much less stressful.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-17 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-17 14:38 Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 14:39 ` Dan Cross
2017-10-17 15:05 ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 15:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2017-10-17 15:45 ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 16:04 ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 17:35 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2017-10-17 22:32 ` Tiago Natel
2017-10-17 16:00 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2017-10-17 16:22 ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 15:46 ` Teodoro Santoni
2017-10-17 18:28 ` Anthony Martin
2017-10-17 21:12 ` Jules Merit
2017-10-17 21:45 ` Jules Merit
2017-10-17 21:49 ` Jules Merit
2017-10-17 22:18 ` Charles Forsyth
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