Re: Not a typewriter

Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Fri, 11 May 2001 10:03:43 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 11 May 2001 Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:

> >Heaven help us when tradition is more important than clarity.
> >
>
> If clarity is the most important consideration, then other things should be
> changed as well. For instance, the command we use to search for text strings in
> files should be called "textsearch." That's a lot more clear than "grep."

it's not clear to me that that textsearch is a more accurate description
than Get Regular ExPression

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