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It definitely makes you wonder whether the 'E' key was broken on the machines at Bell Labs.

In all seriousness, Ken Thompson was asked what was the one thing we wanted to change in Unix if he could, and his answer was that he would spell "creat" with an "e"[1]. And funnily enough, he actually did in Go[2].

[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10893/what-did-ken-... [2]: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c90d392ce3d3203e0c32b3f9...



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