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  • Big endiant is great for intellisense to quickly browse possibilities, since it groups it all in the same place.

    If only someone would train a program… we could call it a Large Language Model… to knowingly group the names together so we wouldn’t have to choose between human-readable format or dB format.

    Guess that will never happen because instead we’re stuck using “AI’s” to inflate stock prices instead. /s

    I remember seeing a proposed language that would allow each programmer to choose what name to use for each item. Don’t like ‘open_file’? Choose to see it as ‘file_open’ every time you review the file in the future.

    While we battle with each other endlessly, we keep forgetting that the computer doesn’t care.




  • sudo42@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSeriously, WTF is up with that?
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    2 months ago

    Not an expert nor a historian, but my understanding is that ‘find’ goes back a long way (*nix has been around a while).

    Earlier commands such as find were created back before a lot of command/option syntax forms we know today were agreed to and standardized.

    Since ‘find’ has been around so long, we’ve just suffered its non-standard syntax rather than risk the chaos that would be unleashed by trying to fix it.

    If it makes you feel better, you can console yourself that you’re using one of the more arcane incantations of the elder *nix wizards.