Re: Not a typewriter

From: Jonathan Lundell (jlundell@pobox.com)
Date: Sun May 13 2001 - 20:31:30 EST

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>why creat doesn't end in an "e;" and so forth. I tell the

Some time back, Ken Thompson was asked, if he had it to do over
again, what changes he would make to Unix. The only thing he could
think of: spell it "create()".

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/Jonathan Lundell.
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