Re: [MacPerl-Scribes] Re: Using MacPerl for CGI Programming

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 9:33 PM +0100 3/19/00, Terje Bless wrote:
>BSD is the Berkley Standard Distribution of UNIX; a sibling of AT&T UNIX.

At one time, this was the case.  Now, however, BSD has a separate
existence and is not longer technically "UNIX".  There was this
lawsuit, you see...

>>Is this really objectionable?  Rich?  Brian?
>
>Not objectionable, but debateable.

I'm not the editor here; Brian is (he said, grinning), but it's
OK by me...

>I think "*nix" is bad because it isn't clear; _especially_ for people who
>do _not_ have UNIX background! "UN*X" is better and I would personally
>prefer just spelling it out as "UNIX" or, if you prefer, "Unix" (it isn't
>really an acronym but AT&T papers consistently use capitals).
>
>It's a nitpick...

Well, I tend to think of "Unix" as whatever runs on Dennis's machine
and "UNIX" as the "official" name for systems that the Open Group (or
whatever they're calling themselves this week) have "blessed".  So,
that leaves us with weird alternatives...

Did you know that a Linux vendor got a nastygram for using the term
"Unix-like" to describe Linux?  They decided to start calling UNIX a
"Linux-like Operating System".

>>I could globally change this to "CGI scripts"

Gad.  I remember fighting guerrilla actions with Chris all over MPPE
about the question of "CGIs" vs "CGI scripts".  FWIW, I prefer the
latter usage; funny I missed it...

-r
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