On Fri, 11 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Heaven help us when tradition is more important than clarity. > > > > If clarity is the most important consideration, then other things should be > changed as well. For instance, the command we use to search for text strings in > files should be called "textsearch." That's a lot more clear than "grep." it's not clear to me that that textsearch is a more accurate description than Get Regular ExPression - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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