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- From: trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: w and ps don't agree + Typical UN*X-attitude
- Message-ID: <TROST.92Aug20002842@romulus.reed.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 07:28:48 GMT
- Article-I.D.: romulus.TROST.92Aug20002842
- References: <Bt6Lty.Cv7@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <1992Aug19.071445.4360@ircam.fr>
- <1992Aug19.084554.10580@reed.edu>
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- <1992Aug19.152402.16045@prl.dec.com> <o3@byu.edu>
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- Organization: Reed College
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- In-Reply-To: gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu's message of 19 Aug 92 23:24:34 GMT
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- In article <o3@byu.edu> gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton) writes:
- >> the moronic idea of naming a command
- >> after its programmers and not finding a mnemonic to indicate its use
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- I believe he was referring to awk(1). I forget who "a" and "w" are,
- but "k" is Brian Kernighan of "K & R" fame.
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- Aho, Weinberg(er?), and Kernighan.
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- I just don't understand why "COBOL" is a more compelling name than
- "awk". Both mean nothing to most everyone.
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- Bill Trost <trost@reed.edu> There are two types of people: those who divide
- Reed College Systems Manager people into two types, and those who don't.
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