From: jhellenthal@dataix.net (Jason Hellenthal)
Subject: [TUHS] the origin of dotfiles
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:51:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120818175100.GA19098@DataIX.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120817.141300.1065791047788293044.kuroishi@iij.ad.jp>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 02:13:00PM +0900, Kuroishi Mitsuo wrote:
>
> Hi. Just FYI.
>
> It's an interesting article about the origin of dotfiles.
>
> https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
>
With all due respect to Rob Pike, I really do not find it all that
interesting. .files being no different than any other file other than
not being displayed in a listing ? it seriously makes utterly no
difference other than the human PoV. Just because "We did it in Plan 9"
does mean squat other than "We did it differently".
$ ls -A |grep ^\\. |wc -l
108
All of which I know how they got there and why they are there.
You have to keep in mind that the old UNIX systems did not have all the
crap that has evolved today for "Desktop" use and programmers in any
given situation will leverage all aspects available in any environment
to achieve a goal, just as Plan 9 does.
--
- (2^(N-1)) JJH48-ARIN
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-18 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 5:13 Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-08-18 17:51 ` Jason Hellenthal [this message]
2012-08-18 18:49 ` Ori Idan
2012-08-18 19:07 ` sl
2012-08-18 19:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-08-18 22:46 ` Dario Niedermann
2012-08-18 23:08 ` Tim Newsham
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