Lie Ryan wrote:
As the manpage of "less" explains: 'less - opposite of more'

I've always heard it explained that "more" is the original paging program of UNIX, and when a new pager was created (by GNU?) they named it "less" because, as we all know, "less is more"[1].

Simón

[1] http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/226400.html (for those to whom English is not a primary language, or just anyone who doesn't get the "joke".)
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