From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!217.73.144.45.MISMATCH!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!news.k-dsl.de!feed.xsnews.nl!border-3.ams.xsnews.nl!193.141.40.65.MISMATCH!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <8a5f3b98-1c5a-4d47-aca7-e106d1223fa9@a26g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <8763cj53ir.fsf@jspa-nykredit.sparre-andersen.dk> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:34:35 +0200 Message-ID: <12m62xl5s7442$.v1yh6bzn32a7$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2009 20:34:30 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 351f7ab0.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=9h3d[o\c5SZ@>[RYkFXOIP4IUKAQl>7;HE;W9YC>T]OWGOV X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7947 Date: 2009-08-21T20:34:30+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:58:47 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: > Unix is flexible enough that you can change all this if you like. > The shell is just another program. It would be easy enough to > create a new shell, or even a set of aliases for an existing shell, > that remaps all the command names to something more "sensible", so > "man" is called "help" and "grep" is called "search". > > I find it interesting that nobody bothers to do this. Once you > get used to the odd names, they're really not a problem. That is because it is rather a burden than an advantage. You pay for a system and then have to redesign it to fit your needs. You just do not do it. Compare it with MS-Office. You can reconfigure all its buttons etc. But you would never do it seriously. No more that 90% of Unix users would do their shells. Some rudimentary redefinitions like dir = ls -FCa in .bashrc, that's all. So-called "flexibility" is laziness of developers to supply a usable and comfortable interface. Design of such an interface is a huge work, even if you have all necessary functionality. They just tell you - do it yourself. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de