Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!minya!jc
From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Echo
Message-ID: <3@minya.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 88 20:19:12 GMT
References: <6557@june.cs.washington.edu> <4712@mtgzz.att.com> <963@vsi.COM>
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In article <963@vsi.COM>, friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
> In article <4712@mtgzz.att.com>, avr@mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) writes:
> > [...] Dave Korn's approach was to do a new builtin, print, with
> > options to emulate either "echo".
> 
> How many people had to rename their `print' programs when
> they got ksh?  Why in the world was such a commonly-used
> command name taken by ksh?
> 
Easy.  They've been following this newsgroup and others, and seen lots of
flames about the idiocy of the designers of Unix who called their print
command "cat", and decided to take the criticisms to heart.  Now you turn
around and criticise them for using "print".

Ya just can't win.

I think they should have called it "IEB380P".  Users would love it.

-- 
John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)

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