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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
by 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 agoCould vim be considered a pun? It's just vi improved, but vim itself means "energy / enthusiasm"
- jandrese 6y agoVim 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 agoelm (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...