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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by pmiller2 on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:31PM (#14241867)
If only there were a site on the internet where you could search for these things....
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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by _acme on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:47PM (#14242010)
There is, but that's a waste of my time, when we could all just use normal words.
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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by ryandrake on Monday May 01, 2017 @08:25PM (#14243018)
Yea, like grep and awk!

Naming things has always been hard.

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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by rbanffy on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:42AM (#14244657)
Grep and awk were a new thing decades ago. I expected we knew better now, but, it seems, we are doomed to ignore the past and go reinventing (and then having to fix) our own square wheels.
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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by funzofactofive on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:41PM (#14243802)
Yeah...if only I didn't have to press one for "English"
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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by rbanffy on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:40AM (#14244645)
That kind of defeats the purpose of a software manager, doesn't it?
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