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From: jaapna@xs4all.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Subject: [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 20:47:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CFF5AEFB-6F0D-4B2A-99DA-4A3E795F3D88@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201603251443.u2PEh8OZ019856@skeeve.com>


> <SNIP>
> One of Unix's signature hallmarks is its terseness: short command names
> like mv, ln, cp, cc, ed; short options (a dash and a single letter),
> programs with just a few, if any, options at all, and short path names:
> "usr" instead of "user", "src" instead of "source" and so on.
> <SNIP>

Peter Collinson wrote in 1983 an article on this subject.  It is
available at <http://www.hillside.co.uk/articles/typing.html>.

	jaap


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-25 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-25 14:43 Aharon Robbins
2016-03-25 19:47 ` Jaap Akkerhuis [this message]
2016-03-25 21:03 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-28 20:12   ` scj
2016-04-01 14:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2016-04-01 22:41       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-25 21:29 ` [TUHS] Command-line options Warren Toomey
2016-03-25 23:25   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26  2:10     ` John Cowan
2016-03-26  3:09       ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-26 19:43         ` Clem Cole
2016-03-26 20:54           ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-26 22:05             ` John Cowan
2016-03-27  1:25             ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-27  1:50               ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-27  2:01               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27  6:18                 ` Random832
2016-03-27  6:57                   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 19:38                   ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-27  1:35             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26  3:54 ` [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix? Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26  4:30   ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-26  5:44     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26  8:33       ` Steve Nickolas
     [not found] <mailman.1.1459562401.20104.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-04-02  2:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-04-02  2:35   ` Charles Anthony

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