[TUHS] Of flags and keyletters

[Douglas McIlroy]

> why did AT&T refer to "flags" as "keyletters" in its SysV documentation?

Bureaucracies beget bureaucratese--polysyllabic obfuscation, witness
APPLICATION USAGE in place of BUGS.

One might argue that replacing "flag" by "option", thus doubling the number
of syllables, was a small step in that direction. In fact it was a
deliberate attempt to discard jargon in favor of normal English usage.

Doug
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