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To continue the successor names, we've also got: bison from yacc (yet another compiler compiler) pine (pine is not elm) from elm (did that one stand for anyth

• JdeBP 8y ago
  You missed flex from lex. And then: * getty; agetty ("alternative"); mingetty ("minimal"); mgetty (I always think "modem" myself); uugetty ("UUCP"); fgetty ("fast"); and ngetty (probably "Nikola") - https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/316279/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/316279/5132 * ex; vi; stevie; elvis; calvin; elwin; javi; lemmy; pvic; trived; vigor; vile; vip; virus; winvi; xvi; vim, view, evim, exim, eview, rvim, rview, gvim, gex, gview, rgvim, rgview, vimdiff, and gvimdiff (VIM); nvi; and nvim (NeoVIM) - http://www.guckes.net/vi/clones.php3 http://www.guckes.net/vi/clones.php3 * pax, a peace treaty in the tar versus cpio argument
• zb 8y ago
  elm stands for ELectronic Mail, if I'm not mistaken.
• tgb 8y ago
  In math and physics there is the Pin group which is named because it relates to the Spin group (named after spin like of an electron) in the same way that SO (special orthogonal group) relates to O (orthogonal group) and SL (special linear group) relates to GL (general linear group). This is something some mathematicians find quite amusing. Edit: also some say rng which is a ring without an identity (without an i). I think there are others similar to this.