1 Oct
2024
1 Oct
'24
3:25 a.m.
On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 16:51, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> wrote:
Henry Bent wrote in
<CAEdTPBeK4HOjuiqJPtpneqrDj0CF3=5=jv5aOPjYPBisDkPmyg(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 14:08, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
|> This makes me wonder when the `apropos` command was introduced; surely
|> the name was also somewhat of an obscure joke ("what is apropos of
|> listing a directory?" is not exactly the phrase that springs
|> immediately to mind when wondering how to list a directory).
|>
|
|Looks like it was introduced in 2BSD, written by Bill Joy, though the
|4.4BSD manpage claims that it was introduced in 3BSD. Neither the BSD
|source nor manpage are particularly enlightening about the choice of
name.
"a pro position" maybe.
needs a "pro user" from the start; AI would instead and
additionally clean your back i would assume.
Well, I no longer have institutional access to the full Oxford English
Dictionary, but Merriam Webster is happy to provide an extended paragraph
(!) on the etymology:
--
*Apropos* wears its ancestry like a badge—or a beret. From the French
phrase *à propos*, meaning “to the purpose,” the word’s emphasis lands on
its last syllable, which ends in a silent “s”: \ap-ruh-POH. *Apropos*
typically functions as an adjective describing what is suitable or
appropriate (“an apropos comment”), or as a preposition (with or without
*of*) meaning “with regard to,” as in “apropos (of) the decision,
implementation will take some time.” The phrase “apropos of nothing”
suggests that something does not relate to a specified topic.
--
-Henry