From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] speaking of early C compilers
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:25:41 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1410280318570.57132@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141027154810.EE17018C0A4@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > What, as opposed to spelling creat() with an "e"?
>
> Actually, that one never bothered me at all!
It still annoys me, and it lives on in O_CREAT. Then again, I once got
annoyed with TBL's use of "center" [sic], and promptly implemented
"centre" as well.
> 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...)
Especially when the syscall itself is chdir(). Perhaps "cd" was used for
something else at the time?
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 15:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 16:25 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2014-10-28 0:16 ` John Cowan
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2014-10-28 1:55 Jason Stevens
2014-10-28 12:52 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 18:16 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-10-27 16:50 Norman Wilson
2014-10-27 14:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 15:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 15:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-27 16:52 ` Dan Cross
2014-10-27 13:54 Jason Stevens
2014-10-27 13:46 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 10:32 Jason Stevens
2014-10-27 13:03 ` Brantley Coile
2014-10-27 13:34 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 13:40 ` random832
2014-10-27 14:04 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-27 15:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-27 17:09 ` scj
2014-10-27 20:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 21:34 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 1:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-28 2:06 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 12:22 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-28 12:42 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 13:03 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-28 22:02 ` John Cowan
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