From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix?
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:30:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1603260025100.31974@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160326035414.GJ3766@eureka.lemis.com>
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Even now I tend to shorten file names. And I suspect I'm not the only
> person who hates these excessively long
> --options-that-could-have-been-written-more-succinctly. Probably it's
> at least partially a mentality issue.
I still like one-letter switches, and my programs sometimes use tons upon
tons of them.
Even well into the days of tab completion, I still often keep my filenames
down to 8 characters or less plus extension, which leaves people wondering
what the heck "L34-01.MP4" is. (spoiler: "Lupin the 3rd, Part IV, Episode
1")
That said, just yesterday I was wondering what the heck "TANGALA.BAS" on
my hard drive was. (It was a TANdy 1000 program that played the startup
jingle from GALAga.)
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-26 4:30 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
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 [this message]
2016-03-26 5:44 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 8:33 ` Steve Nickolas
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2016-04-02 2:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-04-02 2:35 ` Charles Anthony
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