UNIX Humour

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> writes:

> Well, I, for one, hardly think it would be worth it to attempt to make
> the shell smart enough to detect this kind of "ignorant expert" error.

I was referring to software with "metadata" features, so a shell would
need to be very little smarter and be able to get it right every time
and be able to easily give poor dumb users some decent error messages.