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Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday October 5, 2004 @05:00AM from the in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line dept.

Today we return to our Slashdot interview roots with a "Call for questions" for Rob "Commander" Pike, who has been involved in the development of many modern programming concepts, GUI advances, character sets, and operating systems. We'll email 10 - 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Rob and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.

Re:resolv.conf by JUSTONEMORELATTE · 2004-10-05 05:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Ahh, you see, UNIX was created back in the day when we couldn't afford vowels, and many consonants.
As such, common commands had to be shortened a little bit:
"Copy" becomes "cp"
"List" becomes "ls"
"Rename" becomes "mv" and so on.
Re:resolv.conf by roalt · 2004-10-05 05:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Why was the 'e' ever removed from resolv.conf?!!?!?
That was bcaus the -ky on my kyboard was not working as it should in thos days.
Re:Biggest problem with Unix by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 05:24 · Score: 5, Funny

If you know what's wrong and know how to fix it, why don't you fix it already! The source is out there.
Re:resolv.conf by telstar · 2004-10-05 06:01 · Score: 4, Funny
"Ahh, you see, UNIX was created back in the day when we couldn't afford vowels, and many consonants.
- I blame that bitch Vanna...
probably redundant by this point... by Guano_Jim · 2004-10-05 06:10 · Score: 5, Funny

emacs or vi?

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