[TUHS] speaking of early C compilers
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Oct 28 01:48:10 AEST 2014
> From: Dave Horsfall <dave at 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
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