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I was most excited to learn that ed(1) is pronounced “eee dee”.
by bch 8y ago
I was most excited to learn that ed(1) is pronounced “eee dee”.
- superflyguy 8y ago... by literally four people.
- cat199 8y ago... who literally created it.
- andremat 8y ago... please repeat after me: gif.
- mattl 8y agoI generally go with “GIF with a soft G is the format, GIF with a hard G is the culture.”
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoEveryone involved in the creation of GIF and CompuShow pronounce it as "jif". Anything else is sacrelige.
- mattl 8y agoThose people aren’t part of the lifestyle or culture. I wish they were.
- ts4z 8y agoCompuServe.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoCompuShow was the DOS GIF viewer.
- ts4z 8y agoD’oh. Thanks.
- Bromskloss 8y agoWhat's right is right, even if the majority is wrong. No argumentum ad populum here! :-)
- User23 8y agoStands to reason really. cd, ls, mv (crush the “move” heresy), ld, and others. Ambiguity creeps in at three characters. Who’s the man?
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoThose lack the vowels to be pronounceable. Also ed looks like the first syllable of editor and could reasonable be pronounced as such.
- User23 8y agoYou're not wrong, but it's still pretty clear that the PDP11 crew thought in keystrokes and not syllables.
- mturmon 8y agoThe octal dumper od is pronounced oh-dee, the assembler is ay-ess, the archiver is ay-arr. OTOH, the delayed execution command is “at”, but that is a full word anyway.
- srtjstjsj 8y ago"ed" (and the ED in QED)'s name was also chosen as an abbreviation for "editor". But the creators chose to pronounce the abbreviation differently.
- jmts 8y agoFrom the video [1]: "The UNIX text editor was called 'eee-dee' - it's not pronounced 'ed', at least by those in the know - it's pronounced 'eee-dee'. This was written by Ken Thompson, and I think it was basically a stripped down version of an editor called QED" [1] https://youtu.be/NTfOnGZUZDk?t=113 https://youtu.be/NTfOnGZUZDk?t=113