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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: silas poulson via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Cc: silas poulson <silas8642@me.com>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Of flags and keyletters
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:53:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wy1b0a2jl.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE0C291E-AA25-47AC-8E65-D8D4DA7335C9@me.com> (silas poulson via TUHS's message of "Sat, 2 Mar 2024 00:33:04 +0000")

silas poulson wrote:
> Bakul Shah wrote:
>> Use of "flag" for this purpose seems strange. "option" makes more sense
> I always took it to be a semi descriptive joke, like “mouse”, with the 
> sort of flag you wave.

At this point we should recall the quote "cat came back from Berkeley
waving flags", attributed to Rob Pike.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-02 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-01 15:49 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-01 16:23 ` [TUHS] " Steve Nickolas
2024-03-01 19:44   ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-01 16:56 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-03-02  0:33   ` silas poulson via TUHS
2024-03-02 18:53     ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2024-03-02 18:24   ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-02 18:35     ` Warner Losh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-03-02 22:14 Noel Chiappa
2024-03-03 17:38 ` Aaron
2024-03-03 17:52   ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-03 19:28     ` Aaron
2024-03-03 21:24   ` Rich Salz
2024-02-29 17:21 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-02-29 17:59 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-01  5:30   ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-01  5:44 ` G. Branden Robinson

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