OT - Re: [Gllug] Office software

[Nix]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, William Palfreman stipulated:
> On 17 Nov 2001, Nix wrote:
> 
>> the way exceptions may affect control flow &c.
> 
> Hooray for the real et cetera!  ln -s "/etc/" "/&c"

Absolutely ;) I've been hooked on it for years. It can't be to reduce
typing because &c is just as hard to type as etc...

It's more English (`et' replaced with `and' :) )

> Of course the real hard case makes the link the other way round to
> provide backward compatibility for programs expecting /etc/ to exist at
> all.  :-)

POSIX doesn't guarantee it that I recall :)

> Having to use "" quotes does make &c a bit of a pain on the command
> line, though, so I suppose this innovation will not take off. 

Bah, a mere technicality. I think we should call it `/My Configuration'.

(`/My Patronising Bastards with No Grasp of Sane Naming Conventions'
is coming soon.)

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