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Referring to things like unusual command line options as "incantations" has been reasonably common across the history of computer usage at least from the 1970s
by tjr 12y ago
Referring to things like unusual command line options as "incantations" has been reasonably common across the history of computer usage at least from the 1970s or so, if not earlier.
See: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/incantation.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/incantation.html
- oinksoft 12y agoEspecially used of tricks that are so poorly documented that they must be learned from a wizard.
- xxs 12y agowhat's so unusual about -cp (or "-classpath")
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- apetresc 12y agoEspecially since the guy writing this literally wrote the XML spec. You'd think he's be good at deciphering "incantations".
- acdha 12y agoIf you're familiar with most unix tools, you'd expect that to be --classpath. If you need more than one addition, do you use a colon separated list (Unix), semicolon (Windows), or repeat it once per option? Does it expand ~ or do you need to None of this is that hard but if you don't use this all the time it's easy for everyone's soup of almost-but-not-quite similar conventions to blur together and you waste time figuring it out. In the Java world you have the added problem that the JVM has a legacy convention which doesn't follow any platform standard and the problem that many projects use different conventions so you probably also have a different set of rules for JVM options and the actual program options.
- syncsynchalt 12y agoThat's unixese for -c -p, for one. -C <classpath> or --classpath=<classpath> would be more typical.