I would have to say that my 'favorite' <cough, cough> *nix commands has to be awk. Talk about a command name having nothing to do with the function. For those who don't know, awk is the first letters of the last names of the 3 people who invented it. It is a text manipulation language.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers On 2013-11-06 15:06, DASDBILL2 wrote: > My first thought when I see "cp" is "central processor." > > How about using "NIO" as an alias of "cp" (meaning "copy"), where "NIO" > stands for "Not Intuitively Obvious"? "cpy" is much more intuitively obvious > to me than "cp". > > Our MVS world is not without similar egregious examples. E.g, some of the > operator/user commands for Omegamon were very cryptic. Omegamon did have some, uh, strange commands. cp is not among the more obscure names chosen for Unix/Linux commands. At least the letters of the command can be found in the word "copy". It certainly isn't intuitive that if I want to search the files in a directory for occurrences of a string that the command I would want is grep. Or how about flex/bison? And please don't ask me to finger a user. Thank goodness IBM did not choose to prefix all their commands with "ya" for "yet another". -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
