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Re:Fish shell by bglusman on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:34AM (#27183189)
It is a bit redundant, but that's not the same thing as saying it's bad or author should have eliminated this redundancy. I think of this a bit like a Checksum, which is also a redundancy... it reduces cognitive load/likelihood of error by the reader when parsing this particular acronym. Like ATM can mean both "At the moment" and "Automated Teller Machine", saying "ATM Machine" helps disambiguate (in a way) which acronym you mean. Often context is enough to do this, but as a habit/affordance to users with variable levels of familiarity with the context, I think it's a useful and good redundancy rather than a wasteful one to be eliminated.
Re:Fish shell by afarrell on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:23AM (#27183753)
Any medium of human communication (text, speech, body language, etc...) is lossy. Humans need acknowledgment, retransmission, and redundancy.