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I got the totally opposite take away from the article. It should be “pathname of working directory” but the Multics history pretty clearly points at “print work

I got the totally opposite take away from the article. It should be “pathname of working directory” but the Multics history pretty clearly points at “print working directory.” Some commands become embedded so deep in your muscle memory that you’re going to bring them along with you, even if it occurs to you that the name doesn’t make much sense in the present working environment.

lovelyviking 6y ago
>Multics history pretty clearly points at “print working directory.” It does, but it made sense in the context of Multics, it doesn't in the context of Unix/Linux. It only shows how unix was designed: "let's tweak a bit and see ... " not too impressive