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From: tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
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Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
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Date: 29 Aug 88 15:22:48 GMT
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Ward says that he likes Unix but prefers the command names of DOS
because they are less cryptic.

I agree that Unix commands are cryptic but I really think this is
a tiny point.  To extreme neophytes, it doesn't matter what a
command is because they are not even sure what they are doing
conceptually.  To neophytes who are not quite that extreme, the
cryptic commands are learned with a very slightly extra amount of
effort but once learned, they are remembered just as well as the
more intuitively named ones.

I worked at a place where people used computers heavily and were
not interested in them other than to get their work done.  They
had many difficulties with Unix but the command names were not
among the real difficulties.

Tom Reingold
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