Apr 25, 2014
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A discovered quirk is just few steps away from becoming a feature
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 quirk ...