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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2003-07-25

"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." -- In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson.

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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 06:26am on 2003-07-25
Only it isn't: it's a system invented by people who never learned to type and were working on 300 baud dialup lines.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 10:44am on 2003-07-25
Yah, I know -- commands like "ls" and "cp" started as little nubbins. But this explanation is more fun and the imagery is better. :-P

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