[TUHS] speaking of early C compilers
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Tue Oct 28 02:25:41 AEST 2014
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > What, as opposed to spelling creat() with an "e"?
>
> Actually, that one never bothered me at all!
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.
> 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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