On 11-10-16 2:21 AM, David Mann wrote:
On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On 11-10-15 5:06 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
The original design of Unix contains so many
ideas that were radical, far from obvious, and turned out to be right,
and more or less zero ideas that turned out to be wrong;
creat(2) should have been spelled with an 'e'.
:-)
I advise you to avoid PHP. The inconsistency of function naming and order of
arguments would drive you insane.
Wise advice, Dave, and as far as possible I do avoid PHP. I've done more
than my share of it over the years (12, I estimate) and Python is my
language of choice now. Much more satisfying.
But my comment was a joking reference to a remark that Ken Thompson made
when asked what he'd do over again if he were redesigning the UNIX
system. He replied "I'd spell creat with an e."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson
-bmw
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