Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

2011-05-20 Thread Roland Hutchinson
On Wed, 18 May 2011 07:19:08 +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: Roland Hutchinson my.spamt...@verizon.net writes: Sorry to have to contradict you, Don't be sorry. but it really is a textbook example of recursion. Try this psuedo-code on for size: FUNCTION DIR-DELETE (directory

Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

2011-05-17 Thread Roland Hutchinson
of Info Tech Industry Xah I'm writing from alt.usage.english. The non-natural language mavens may have more to add. -- Roland Hutchinson He calls himself the Garden State's leading violist da gamba, ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. --Newark (NJ