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    [โ€“] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 21 hours ago (22 children)

    On a side note:
    I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to "passwd".
    Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??

    [โ€“] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    They did boatloads of horrific things to save bytes. They radix encoded strings, created the y2k and 2038 problems, normalized redirecting output to /dev/null, passed raw text blocks through a fifo file buffer rather than properly tagged data, ditched proper exception handling and a bunch more listed in the Unix Haterโ€™s Handbook

    https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

    [โ€“] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!

    [โ€“] Hawke@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

    Kinda, but itโ€™s pretty much all horrendously outdated bitching about superficial flaws in tools from 40 years ago.

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