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On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:46:33PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Yoz Grahame once stated: > > > > Aristotle is actually being remarkably kind to PHP here, failing to > > mention the TWO THOUSAND FUNCTIONS IN THE MAIN NAMESPACE, many of > > which are synonyms for each other, and most of which have wildly > > inconsistent invocation patterns. > > First of all, how is that any different from a modern Linux shell (which I > just counted, and has THREE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED and NINETY-NINE > programs), which has a bunch of commands (3,599) in a single namespace? I would say the excusability factor for the shell is a bit higher. It was never really intended primarily for programming tasks. For its primary purpose, putting commands out of the default namespace has a pretty high cost. It's still a little frigtening to do the accidental tab and get: Display all 3346 possibilities? (y or n) What do you think bash? Could that really help matters? -joshThere's stuff above here
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