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- Subject: Re: w and ps don't agree + Typical UN*X-attitude
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.003030.19946@engage.pko.dec.com>
- From: sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 14:57:27 GMT
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- 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.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >--
- >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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- Actually, COBOL means an awful lot of job security for a large number of
- programmers out there :-)
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- awk(1) don't mean a lot to me these days as I have Larry Wall to thank for Perl,
- and he uses interesting names for commands :-)
-
- Regards
- Richard Sharpe
- These opinions be mine, Digital has its own.
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