Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:52:50 -0500, BGB wrote:

Putting the destination on the right is also fairly common in general in
Unix style command notation:
   dosomething args infile outfile
 
   prog1 infile | prog2 > outfile

True enough. Except that the diff command shows changes as additions to
the file on the right, and deletions from the file on the left. So if I
want to change the diff command to cp, to actually replace the old file
with the new one, I have to remember to swap the file names around.