From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tim.newsham@gmail.com (Tim Newsham) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:08:57 -1000 Subject: [TUHS] the origin of dotfiles In-Reply-To: <50301b3f.ZZmPbBROqUcYLlK2%dnied@tiscali.it> References: <20120817.141300.1065791047788293044.kuroishi@iij.ad.jp> <20120818175100.GA19098@DataIX.net> <50301b3f.ZZmPbBROqUcYLlK2%dnied@tiscali.it> Message-ID: good bugs dont die.. they turn into features. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Dario Niedermann wrote: > Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> 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". > > > IMO the interesting - and funny - part is that dotfiles were born as an > unintended side effect of a flagrant kludge. > > DN > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com