>>167
You fail at reading comprehension.

• A small amount of time is lost by hundred of people. And directories names is the tip of the iceberg.
• You also proved my point: you have to learn this. Of course people can remember arbirtrary crap. My room is filled by printouts of cheatlists for a dozen technologies.

People should deal with as little learning as possible, and it is possible to do so without making the system less performant for developers and professional users. UNIX directory structure is a decent example of making other people deal with your problems because you didn't take the time to engineer your way around it.

If your are a coder, laziness is not just a virtue, it is a moral imperative. Computers are supposed to allow you to do stuff fast. Having to learn things gets in the way. One clever person is generally enough to solve a problem for millions of people.

I think the subtle mix of maximal computer performance orientation, legacy, elitism and coder mentality will never allow any improvement in UNIX, there's too much inertia.