1 Mar
2024
1 Mar
'24
4:23 p.m.
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.