18 Jul
2018
18 Jul
'18
9:54 a.m.
That was Ken Thompson who said that. And indeed, in Plan 9 it's called
"create".
Arnold
Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
There was a quote going around where when asked if he
would do anything differently, he said he’d put an e on the end of creat. I guess he was
tire of people calling it Cree-at.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 17, 2018, at 8:20 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com
wrote:
Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was intrigued by BMK's comment that
"ed" was never spokend as "ed"
by "those in the know", which leads me to wonder how things were
spoken.
I always spelled out the two-letter commands: e-d, a-r, l-s, r-m, c-p.
chmod I pronounced as ch-mod (not mode), but 'rmdir' was 'remove
dir'
and for some reason, mv was move. (I think the doc for vi officially
stated that the proram's name was to be pronounced v-i and not 'vie'.)
Undoubtedly there were many regional differences... :-)
Arnold