fun with Unix

[Theodore A. Kaldis]

In article <13418 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> link at stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes:

> I'm sick (&tired) of "UNIX jokes". As far as I'm concerned, "UNIX jokes"
> is merely a statement of reality.

> Come on Ken Ritchie, you could have thought better than 'ls' for 'dir'.
              ^^^^^^^

You are confusing *Dennis* Ritchie, the developer of the C programming
language (and co-author, along with Brian Kernighan, of the book of
the same title) with Ken *Thompson*, the developer of UNIX (which
ironically started out as a *single*-user operating system).
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