From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] speaking of early C compilers
Message-ID: <20141027154810.EE17018C0A4@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>

    > What, as opposed to spelling creat() with an "e"?

Actually, that one never bothered me at all!

I tended to be more annoyed by _extra_ characters; e.g. the fact that 'change
directory' was (in standard V6) "chdir" (as opposed to just plain "cd") I
found far more irritating! Why make that one _five_ characters, when most
common commands are two?! (cc, ld, mv, rm, cp, etc, etc, etc...)

	Noel