On 7/20/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Multics had an interesting naming convention, which we may want to
> consider. Commands had a full name (e.g. change_working_directory,
> list_directory), and then standard short forms for the *components*,
> e.g. change => ch, working_directory => wdir, so that there would be
> predictable short forms, something like ch_wdir, ls_dir, etc.
I don't know how seriously you are proposing this, but for the record,
I'm pretty much completely opposed to officially-blessed abbreviations.
There's not much we can do to prevent people from making their
own abbreviations, although I consider it a pretty sure way to
cause trouble sooner or later.
FWIW
Robert