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

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

Commenter Cherry wonders who invented all those strange syntaxes, like set " 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 ...