On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 02:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > It never occurred to me for the longest time that > > > that was what it was an initialism for. I thought > > > is was some funny name like grep for the longest > > > time. > > > > You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print? > > Holy crap! Someone really wanted it to say GREP. Early UNIX systems had Teletype terminals. They were slow and difficult to type on. That's why so many of the basic commands are short. I still remember smiling when the 6th Edition introduced 'cd' instead of 'chdir'. The original text editor 'ed' had one-letter commands and only printed the result of an edit if you explicitly asked for it. Someone (possibly Brian Kernighan) described it as playing blindfold chess. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
