Re: Creating a folder on the desktop
Re: Creating a folder on the desktop
- Subject: Re: Creating a folder on the desktop
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:51:02 -0300
At 2:14 PM -0500 9/6/05, Matt Deatherage wrote:
>Calling for ":" to be deprecated is to call for tens of thousands of mission-critical scripts to need revision because some people are more comforable typing UNIX pathnames. IMHO, that's not sufficient reason for such a disruptive change.
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>History always complicates things.
No kidding. When they decided the convention for the direction of flow of electric current there was a 50:50 chance of getting it right. They got it wrong. After they came to understand something of atomic structure and figured out that the charge carriers were electrons, they learned that the charge carriers (or current) was going in the opposite direction. But after more than 100 years of literature having been written with the other convention, it was too late to change it. So we still teach that the current flows from positive to negative, when in truth, the movement of charged particles goes in the opposite direction. In some sense, it's not a big deal, but it does confuse the hell out of students for a while.
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