Rich Teer wrote On 06/28/06 16:21,:
(Also, as a sidenote, since
when did UNIX programs start referring to themselves in the
3rd person?!)
1979. :-) At least that seems to be about when the convention of
programs including their own names in error messages became the norm.
Unix V7 /bin/cp from 1979 does it, the V6 version doesn't.
But I get what you mean, "Firefox doesn't know how to ..." does sound
a bit alien compared to a more Unixish, pseudo-1st-person,
"firefox: don't know how to ..."
But is Firefox really "a Unix program"?
-=] Mike [=-
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