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The recursive acronym "something is not something_else" is a pretty common naming convention in software. Much like how there are a hundred different software p
by laumars 8y ago
The recursive acronym "something is not something_else" is a pretty common naming convention in software. Much like how there are a hundred different software projects out there called "Yet Another something". So I'm not at all surprised we occasionally get collisions. Still makes for a fun coincidence though.
- monocasa 8y agoGNU's Not Unix
- LukeShu 8y agoDo note that Xinu (1981) predates GNU (1983) by several years.
- vram22 8y ago>The recursive acronym "something is not something_else" is a pretty common naming convention in software Right. Goes back far, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym#Notable_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym#Notable_exam... I particularly like EINE and ZWEI: From the linked article: >the two MIT Lisp Machine editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs", German for one) and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially", German for two)
- dfox 8y agoThere is nowadays also DREI which officially stands for "Drei replaces EINE's inheritor" or alternatively for lots of other things (see the source for list), particularly "Drei reimplements Emacs intelligently".
- vram22 8y agoWow, that's cool too. I'm going to create the next one, VIER, for "Vier Is EINE's Replacement". https://translate.google.com/#de/en/Vier https://translate.google.com/#de/en/Vier