Hello Norm,

Saturday, August 13, 2005, 5:12:03 PM, you wrote:

NH>  Programmerese seeks to remove
NH> superfluous letters and syllables in the name of 'efficiency'. So words like
NH> 'manual' and 'User' become 'man' and 'usr'. So what if the word 'man'
NH> already exists with a completely different meaning - the word itself is
NH> superfluous since the computer doesn't need or want to know your gender,
NH> it only wants to know if you are a usr or a su.

Concisely explained.

Science says, 'black hole', *nix says /dev/null.

 
-wittig
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weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/
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