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Re:On Counting (2017) by saagarjha on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:13AM (#17142607)
To keep with the Unix tradition of short command names, I guess?
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Re:On Counting (2017) by LukeShu on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:21AM (#17144190)
`wc` was in 1st edition Unix. It was setting the tradition, not keeping with it!
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