From: "jbritt@..." <jbritt@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T22:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

Hal Fulton wrote:

> But as an old-time Unix hacker, I prefer short names. Two letters is
> best, but my usual threshold is around five.
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> That's one reason I like "lin" (on Lunar Linux) better than apt-get or
> whatever. Though I will probably end up running Fedora instead...


On the ruby-doc list, while discussing a possiboe extension of ri, we 
first refered to it as 'ri.next', then shortened it to 'rj'.


James

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