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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:15:55PM -0600, david nicol wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 07:28, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > > > Er, did you mean to say transliterate instead of translate? If so, then > > the rest of your message makes no sense, because there is no similarity > > between the operation of tr(1) and looking up words in a dictionary. If > > not, then your message still makes no sense, because the operation was > > never termed translation in the first place. > > man tr on the system I am using claims that tr is "translate" When I started university, we also got introduced to programming, and programming languages. Our professor taught us that programming languages used symbols (or keywords), that sometimes looked like English words, but that was purely a coincidence - they weren't, and one shouldn't derive the function of a keyword from the meaning of an English word that looked like it. I think that was a valuable lessons. I always think of the 'tr' operator as the 'tee-ar operator'. Abigail