From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ori@helicontech.co.il (Ori Idan) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:49:15 +0300 Subject: [TUHS] the origin of dotfiles In-Reply-To: <20120818175100.GA19098@DataIX.net> References: <20120817.141300.1065791047788293044.kuroishi@iij.ad.jp> <20120818175100.GA19098@DataIX.net> Message-ID: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > 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. > > > Just out of curiosity, how does plan 9 handles it? Are there hidden files there? I am sure there are but how are they handled? -- Ori Idan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: