26 Mar
2016
26 Mar
'16
1:47 a.m.
<SNIP>
One of Unix's signature hallmarks is its terseness: short command names
like mv, ln, cp, cc, ed; short options (a dash and a single letter),
programs with just a few, if any, options at all, and short path names:
"usr" instead of "user", "src" instead of
"source" and so on.
<SNIP>
Peter Collinson wrote in 1983 an article on this subject. It is
available at <http://www.hillside.co.uk/articles/typing.html>.
jaap