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From: tim@minn-ua.UUCP (Tim Giebelhaus)
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Subject: Re: expert-friendly: are long names a waste of time?
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Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 18:49:55 EDT
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  I wasn't thinking of UNIX so much.  I think that their names are a little
overly short.  I would just assume type in "pascal" as "pc".  PC is harder
for me to remember.  On the other hand, I would not like to type in:
compile_pascal_program.  On Multics there are long commands like that, but
luckly, they have abrevs.  It is a nice way to do it, that is, have both
long and short names be reconized.
  stolaf!umn-cs!minn-ua!tim