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- From: VOELS@usmv01.usm.uni-muenchen.de (Stephen A. Voels)
- Subject: Re: w and ps don't agree + Typical UN*X-attitude
- In-Reply-To: hans@pyrtor.UUCP's message of 20 Aug 92 16: 25:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.091713.28980@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: University Observatory Munich, FRG
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:17:13 GMT
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- In <441@pyrtor.UUCP> hans@pyrtor.UUCP writes:
-
- > In article <TROST.92Aug20002842@romulus.reed.edu> trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost) writes:
- > >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
- > >
- > > I believe he was referring to awk(1). I forget who "a" and "w" are,
- > > but "k" is Brian Kernighan of "K & R" fame.
- > >
- > >Aho, Weinberg(er?), and Kernighan.
- > >
- > >I just don't understand why "COBOL" is a more compelling name than
- > >"awk". Both mean nothing to most everyone.
- >
- > At least "awk" is "awk" is "awk" in most languages. Insisting that commands be
- > named something useful only for English speaking users is kind of narrow
- > considering the global nature of the computer industry these days. It would be
- > fun to call awk something like "PSPL" where PSPL were the equivalent of Pattern
- > Scanning and Processing Language in Hungarian (like Dykstra's P and V semaphores)
- > Just a thought ;-)
- >
- > -hans
-
- I agree completely. Thus we should make sure that the next time FORTRAN
- is updated that either a different language should be used for each statement
- or that random letter should be picked. Of course, the name FORTRAN itself
- should also be changed to a set of random characters (selected from all the
- possible characters of all languages).
-
- :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
-
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- Stephen A. Voels
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