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Fascinating, never knew the biff one.

• aequitas 6y ago
  Could it be this was the name inspiration for Mutt?
  • leephillips 6y ago
    ‘As development progressed, features found in other popular clients such as PINE and MUSH have been added, the result being a hybrid, or "mutt."’ http://www.mutt.org/ http://www.mutt.org/
    • quicklime 6y ago
      It’s great to have a list of what things stand for, but someone needs to make a list of all the puns! A few more that I can think of: more -> less pico (pine composer) -> nano sh (Bourne) -> bash (Bourne again) yacc -> bison
      • kevinmgranger 6y ago
        Could vim be considered a pun? It's just vi improved, but vim itself means "energy / enthusiasm"
        • jandrese 6y ago
          Vim used to include a line from Sherman and Sherman's song: The wonderful thing about tiggers They're loaded with vim and vigor
      • andreareina 6y ago
        elm (ELectronic Mail) -> pine (Pine Is Not Elm) ETA: apache (a patchy server)[1] emacs of course is Editor MACroS, but it's got a few community-provided backronyms, I'm partial to eight megabytes and constantly swapping and escape-meta-alt-shift. [1] http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/open_source_rewrite_history.html http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/open_source_rewrite_hist...