[TUHS] On computerese

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 08:15:34AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote:
> For me the fascinating thing about dd is that people tended to use the JCL
> notation for its arguments even after the Unix style was made available.
> That is, people prefer "dd if=foo" rather than "dd -if foo" or even the
> obviously easiest "dd <foo".

Muscle memory.  dd is weird but you sort of get used to it and then just
do it how you always have.