From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:10:01 +0200 From: FODEMESI Gergely To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Put (was: [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ce5cb50-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sat, 29 May 2004 9nut@9netics.com wrote: > > Don't use files ;-) It is a computer task to save my input but > > I dont understand why I must tell the computer where to store. Even in 1997 I met people who thought, that a user should not be obliged to know when, where and what to save or that the concept of saving should exist at all. (A real visionary might have thought about this probably decades ago.) > Obviously a failure of vision on Rob's part! Put might have come from an idea like above (ie. "save" is not the best way to express the real need), or it was just shorter than "Save". gergo