At 04:48 PM 4/22/2006 +0200, Leendert Meyer wrote:
Content-Disposition: inline
On Saturday 22 April 2006 15:24, Istvan Gabor wrote:
I also cant't stand the name 'cdrecorder' (SUSE's default).
That's to distinguish it from its read-only counter-part (AKA cdrom). Perhaps you would prefer cdrwm? ;)
Cheers,
Leen
I guess you are being sarcastic, but I hope that something like cdrwm doesn't catch on. The UNIX lunatix have made most of the filenames impossible to coordinate with what they do. I suppose that those people who wrote and worked with UNIX decades ago probably never had any typing courses, and were forced to hunt and peck on their old Teletype machines, and so created very short names. Also, of course, names had to live in machine memory, which was in very short supply in those days. Nowadays, almost every kid takes a course called "keyboarding," or, in plain English, typing, and can deal with a computer keyboard probably faster than most of us on the list! Let us continue to name programs with nomens that mean something and are memorable. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.4/320 - Release Date: 4/20/2006