Re: more or less
From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_lab.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 11/18/04
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:35:36 +0100
Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> >>>Yes, that's a reason to NOT rename less to more.
> >>
> >> Why not? less is fully backward-compatible, isn't it?
> >
> >No. It's much larger.
>
> Yes, a whole one hundred and thirty-five thousand bytes larger--what a
Hey - I only have 3MB on my root file system (I dedicated a MB to
swap).
> sinful waste of space! No worse than, say, replacing vi with vim. Yet
> nobody cries out to keep old vi, do they?
It's a worthwhile waste of space. And you can always use vi instead of
more. Or less. I sacrifice many things to have a vim.
> They're quite happy for vi to
> be nothing more than a synonym for vim.
Usually they're not. I have to go round debian switching it to vim from
whatever debian puts it to (which is probably elvis, or nvi, or
whatever).
> So why not turn more into just a
> synonym for less?
Because more is less than less. It really is good to have more choice!
And there are more mores too! But there's only one less.
Peter
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