From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 22 14:11:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05150 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA05142 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id PAA02159; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:10:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704222110.PAA02159@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Unix-haters To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:10:23 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <21628.861654177@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 21, 97 01:22:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Actually, I found it both dull and rather lacking in the humor > department. :-) It made a few good points, but elsewhere it seemed to > be _trying_ so damn hard to come up with legitimate grievances that > the whole attempt just sort of fell flat for me. I expect my pointed > satires to be done with a little more wit and finesse' before I'll > award them good marks and Mark Twain this guy isn't. :-) I agree. I saw a half-dozen good, qualified rants about parts of UNIX that were poorly done in the first or horribly out of date, interspersed with hundreds of pages of "ls is such a stupid command to do a directory, why can't the just call it dir!" I enjoy pointing out to people that "dir" is a really stupid command when what you really want is a list of files. On OS/32 from InterData, ne Concurrent, the command to list the files in the current work area was, of all things, "list files"! Homer Simpson: Doh! Homer on Dos/Win/VMS: Dir! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com