From: "Geo." 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> > It's like they work at it.
>
> They do. (though it appears to be changing as Linux becomes more
> mainstream...)

I don't think it has to do with mainstream, Mac also has descriptive names.


> UNIX folk hated to type.  Unlike the GUI of MS windows, the command
> line interface of UNIX required program names to be typed.  So you had
> short, cryptic names, sometimes consisting of the intitals of the
> author(s).  For example, awk.

Exactly, it's a feature of a GUI OS that the Linux world has yet to
realize, this is the reason I said what I did about the UI being an easy
switch. The effect of a GUI on application names has not yet had sufficient
time to do it's thing on Linux yet.

Geo.

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