At 06:06 PM 2/28/2010, Charlie Kester wrote:
If you don't understand that there's an aesthetic aspect to Unix, you'll miss what a lot of people are complaining about with GNUish stuff.
There's that, too. So many longwinded command line options that they had to start using double dashes. And Linux also tends to follow System V conventions, some of which were changed from the BSD ones by AT&T just to make things annoyingly different.
Then again, there never really was a "UNIX style manual." There probably should have been, so that command line options (among other things) were more consistent. But as often happens, the coders were too busy coding to take a step back and consider this.
In any case, I like the fact that I can hop back and forth between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and the command line shell in MacOS without having to reprogram my fingers.
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