On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Russell McMahon wrote:

>>    Peter, my English is weak, I'm sorry .
>> I'm happy for you saved your invaluable time using
>> abbreviations. But what does it mean "tclsh" ? It drives me
>> absolutely upset, when I can't solve the sort of puzzles, you
>> proposed regularly.
>>    Thank You in advance.   Mike.
>
>Blame Kerningham & Ritchie :-)
>It's all to do with C & Unix and one of the primary objectives is to make
>the language, the Operating System and everything associated with it as
>terse & obfuscated (compact & confusing) as possible. Or so I'm told :-)

No, it is meant to save money by not having people buy new keyboards every
month. Try typing:

The_little_program_that_is_not_that_other_big_program_that_shows_date_and_time\
_but_does_not_change_it

now try typing:

date

When you have 2000+ executable commands (like most average Unix
installations have), then you start running out of letters fast. So you
have things like cut cat top lpr pr then you grow up to initials and have
troff and then you run out of everything and you start calling things
tclsh.

Peter

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