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Re:Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Pro... by tome on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:58AM (#11132625)
> It took me half a minute to realize it had to do with URLs

Oh! "curl" is "c url". It's taken me several years to understand that, and I knew exactly what it did! I imagined my data "curling" off the website, down the intertubes to my filesystem.

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Re:Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Pro... by bmcorser_ on Saturday February 20, 2016 @07:46PM (#11142742)
more than that, i remember reading it was pronounced "see url" .. which makes sense when you look at its default behaviour of printing whatever's at the url you give it; especially compared to wget, which 'gets' whatever's at a url

:)

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