[Eug-lug] shell evilness

[Patrick R. Wade]

larry price wrote:

> 
> the disappearance of the -v option from other forms of date seems
> counterproductive.
> 

Well, of course!  It's GNU, it needs to be gratuitously different!  Like
the lack of the -o option in ls to display filesystem flags, one of my
favorite GNU deletions!

-- 
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
	-- Charles Babbage