Timeline for Why do /usr and /tmp directories for Linux miss vowels in their spellings?
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| Apr 18, 2024 at 11:54 | comment | added | Jeff Grigg | My impression, from learning Unix in the mid-1970s, was that most Unix (and C) developers did not have really strong or fast typing skills. So short (abbreviated) command names (and reserved language words) were favored. Also, I'm sure that as the systems were originally developed, there were not that many commands or directories (or users!), and so longer names were not really needed, to clearly differentiate things. | |
| Jan 11, 2012 at 23:31 | history | answered | Keith Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |