culture of *NIX

[Jason]

"der.hans" wrote:
> while I'm at LJ's web site, here's another article I was wanting to
> post. This one's online, so I can drop in a URL :).
> http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue84/4553.html

From the article:
But under UNIX the highest level--the root--of the filesystem is
always designated with the single character ``/'' and it always
contains the same set of top-level directories [list] and each of
these directories typically has its own distinct structure of
subdirectories. Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance
of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom
repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names
get worn down to three-letter nubbins like stones smoothed by a river. 


...and I suppose it had nothing to do with the fact that unix grew up
in a time when each byte was precious in the extreme. On a related
note, I've heard financial analysts have totalled up the money spent
"fixing" the "y2k bug", added estimated losses and reported losses,
and concluded that had we used 4 digit dates all along, it would have
cost around ten times as much ... the y2k bug, it turns out, was NOT a
bad thing after all, but rather, a good thing... but I still thing
that people who write "01" for the year on their checks suck. Heheh.



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