Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 10:03:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: Not a typewriter |
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On Fri, 11 May 2001 Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:
> >Heaven help us when tradition is more important than clarity. > > > > If clarity is the most important consideration, then other things should be > changed as well. For instance, the command we use to search for text strings in > files should be called "textsearch." That's a lot more clear than "grep."
it's not clear to me that that textsearch is a more accurate description than Get Regular ExPression
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