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* Obligatory Pine joke here * (I know the Elm people don't like jokes about the email client. Tough; they should have picked a name that wasn't already used.)
by patsall 8y ago
* Obligatory Pine joke here *
(I know the Elm people don't like jokes about the email client. Tough; they should have picked a name that wasn't already used.)
- RickJWagner 8y agoI thought of Oak (later 'Java'), too.
- acheron 8y ago> Obligatory Pine joke here But Pine Is Not Elm. I wonder how many of today's Linux users don't get why the editor is named nano. The fact that you can trace the name back to "electronic mail" is my favorite command-name joke in an environment full of them. (If you missed the chain, it was 1. "electronic mail" = "elm" 2. "pine" as a joke on "elm" -- though I believe they deny the "PINE Is Not Elm" derivation, it's still pretty clearly a reference to elm 3. "pico" the editor as "PIne COmposer" 4. "nano" as a joke on "pico".)
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoAnd let's not forget that less(1) is more(1) ;) (And there's also a most(1), because of course there is;p)
- phlakaton 8y agoMore of an "mh" dude myself. It was an efficient and pleasantly humorless system. :-)
- JCharante 8y agoI didn't realize there was that much of a backstory behind nano's name! Thanks for sharing!
- benatkin 8y agoMaybe they like jokes about it somewhat but think people joke about it too much, and the way to get them to joke about it less is to pretend not to like it at all. I think that's what happened with Clojure and people coming up with jure puns on it (compujure, etc). https://github.com/Raynes/lein-newnew/blob/master/src/leiningen/new.clj#L54 https://github.com/Raynes/lein-newnew/blob/master/src/leinin...
- spacesword 8y agoI’ve found that Elm people don’t like jokes in general.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoIs this statement also a joke? :)