27 Oct
2014
27 Oct
'14
9:48 p.m.
From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
What, as opposed to spelling creat() with an
"e"?
Actually, that one never bothered me at all!
I tended to be more annoyed by _extra_ characters; e.g. the fact that 'change
directory' was (in standard V6) "chdir" (as opposed to just plain
"cd") I
found far more irritating! Why make that one _five_ characters, when most
common commands are two?! (cc, ld, mv, rm, cp, etc, etc, etc...)
Noel
27 Oct
27 Oct
10:25 p.m.
New subject: speaking of early C compilers
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Noel Chiappa wrote:
It still annoys me, and it lives on in O_CREAT. Then again, I once got
annoyed with TBL's use of "center" [sic], and promptly implemented
"centre" as well.
What, as
opposed to spelling creat() with an "e"?
Actually, that one never bothered me at all! I tended to be more annoyed by _extra_ characters;
e.g. the fact that
'change directory' was (in standard V6) "chdir" (as opposed to just
plain "cd") I found far more irritating! Why make that one _five_
characters, when most common commands are two?! (cc, ld, mv, rm, cp,
etc, etc, etc...)
Especially when the syscall itself is chdir(). Perhaps "cd" was used for
something else at the time?
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28 Oct
28 Oct
6:16 a.m.
New subject: speaking of early C compilers
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
Especially when the syscall itself is chdir().
Perhaps "cd" was used for
something else at the time?
On the other hand, chdir is conceptually compatible with mkdir and rmdir,
both commands and system calls. I note that MS-DOS and successors allow
md and rd as alternatives.
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