Eunix has even less typing:
Thu 12-24-20 12:49:37{2}[h:\] cp --help
Usage: G:\USR\BIN\cp.exe [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
or: G:\USR\BIN\cp.exe [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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Wayne Bickerdike [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 2:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: Build and submit proc
Except move is propogate a copy. CA IDEAL has MOVE A TO B and SET B = A.
Interchangeable but one is linguistically confusing. Less typing too!
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 05:51 Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I find move source destination to be more natural than move destination
> source.
>
> "When the only tool you have is a pipe, everything looks like a filter."
>
>
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> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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> Subject: Re: [External] Re: Build and submit proc
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> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:36:31 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote:
>
> >Thanks Rex, exactly what I was going to say.
> >
> >On 12/23/2020 7:40 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah there's a problem with it - a human problem. It's easy when in a
> hurry to miss the fact they're reversed ...
> >>
> "reversed"? Is there a canonical order for DD statements? Perhaps
> alphabetical, by DDNAME?
>
> I'm comfortable with languages which generally put the TO before the FROM,
> as"
> X = A + B;
>
> The exception, predictably, is COBOL:
> ADD A TO B GIVING X
>
> I feel the designers of UNIX commands made the wrong choice.
> generally putting the FROM before the TO:
> cp file ... directory;
> TOPS-10 did it the other way, setting me up for culture shock.
>
> It's easier to parse and interpret on-the-fly with the target first.
>
> -- gil
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