>> LOL! That great Unix tradition of eliding vowels at all costs...
>
> along with the great Windows tradition of (a) picking different command
> flags for commands ported from UNIX
I just love the way that you have to write a short Prolog program to
discover the behaviour of most Unix commands for each given combination
of switches.
(E.g., "-s" implies "-v" and "-c". "-k" disabled "-s". "-Q" reverses the
sense of "-s". If "-L" is present then "-s" now controls something
completely different. And if it's a Tuesday today then the "-R" switch
is no-op...)
> (b) trying to make everything
> fit in 8.3 a decade after they got rid of that restriction in all their
> file systems.
Yeah, WTF is *that* about??
And *why* are there still programs who's installers and splash screens
show up in dithered 256-colour or even 16-colour graphics when the
entire civilized world has had 24-bit colour for a decade now?
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