The Old New Thing

A discovered quirk is just few steps away from becoming a feature

April 25, 2014 Apr 25, 2014 04/25/14

Raymond Chen

Commenter Cherry wonders who invented all those strange syntaxes, like to show all environment variables, including the hidden ones. An interesting historical note is the origin of the convention in unix that files whose names begin with a dot are hidden by default (here's the relevant portion). That article highlights how a discovered ...