Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:10:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix-haters Message-ID: <199704222110.PAA02159@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <21628.861654177@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 21, 97 01:22:57 pm
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> 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that were poorly done in the first or horribly out of date, interspersed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!
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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