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- From: kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.105742.15810@cs.utwente.nl>
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- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:57:42 GMT
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- steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt) writes :
-
- >[...]
- >As far as the choice of command names goes, I once saw an interesting
- >paper in the proceedings of some HCI conference or other. It
- >presented the results of a study into how easy people found it to
- >memorise command names. They found no significant difference between
- >memorability of "obvious" versus "abstract" names.
-
- That's the most sensible thing I have heard yet in this never-ending
- boring argument about 'good' or 'bad' command names.
-
- When I use Unix, there is nothing cryptic at all about command names
- like ls, cat and grep. *You know what they do*, after you use them
- a couple of times, and you always do if you use the OS in question
- seriously.
-
- Sure, it's annoying that things like DIR and CD etc have slightly
- different meanings for Acorn and other machines, but that's something
- we have to live with (Acorn's fault principally :-), not to discuss
- it ad infinitum. Actually, there's nothing to discuss !
-
- John Kortink
-
- Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
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