From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Of flags and keyletters
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 11:23:52 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2403011120050.11760@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiV3ixuwoZ-d31JNXpQpHxAAcfpRKreUcn11msW1yjboLg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 1 Mar 2024, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> One might argue that replacing "flag" by "option", thus doubling the number
> of syllables, was a small step in that direction. In fact it was a
> deliberate attempt to discard jargon in favor of normal English usage.
I prolly got the term "switch" from IBM/Microsoft, but that's the term I'm
used to (and my own implementations of Unix utilities do use the term in
their error messages).
-uso.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-01 15:49 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-01 16:23 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2024-03-01 19:44 ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2024-03-01 16:56 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-03-02 0:33 ` silas poulson via TUHS
2024-03-02 18:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2024-03-02 18:24 ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-02 18:35 ` Warner Losh
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2024-03-02 22:14 Noel Chiappa
2024-03-03 17:38 ` Aaron
2024-03-03 17:52 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-03 19:28 ` Aaron
2024-03-03 21:24 ` Rich Salz
2024-02-29 17:21 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-02-29 17:59 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-01 5:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-01 5:44 ` G. Branden Robinson
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