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Is it a word or an acronym? Or neither?
by ale42 3y ago
Is it a word or an acronym? Or neither?
- seritools 3y agoDJ's GNU Programming Platform
- bmacho 3y agoA word. I also believe that names that don't contain any whitespace are all English words. DJGPP is an irregular one.
- janet-catcus 3y agotheir word, their rules. or would you start another jif/gif-kinda war over this with the author? XD
- bmacho 3y agoI personally follow the "I am the user, my rules" when it comes to language rules :P. It is at least as strong as "their word, their rules". Also I can see that Paul Graham's "my website my rules" is even stronger than mine or DJ Delorie's, so Djgpp is also correct (if not by the Gods, then by fist).
- jhgb 3y ago> their word, their rules That strongly reminds me of "it's spelt Raymond Luxury-Yacht, but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'".
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- torstenvl 3y agoThe G is from graphics [ɡɹæfɪks]. Additionally, word-initial single G before short I is always [g] instead of [dʒ] in native English: gift girl give gibbon gimlet gizzard gilded git gimp giddy gig gimbal. The exceptions are borrowed French words: gin (le gin), ginger (le gingembre), giraffe (la girafe), giblet (OF: gibelet).
- janet-catcus 3y agoit is funny how just mentioning it starts another instance... the power of christ compells you!
- Sharlin 3y agoHuh? It’s clearly an initialism and meant to be pronounced "dee jay gee pee pee". FBI is not written "Fbi" in English orthography.
- croes 3y agoAn acronym DJ's GNU Programming Platform (DJGPP)
- zephyrfalcon 3y agoAn acronym. The "GPP" is the DOS-ified spelling of "g++"; the '+' was not (officially) allowed in MS-DOS filenames. The DJ stands for the first name (not the initials, apparently [1]) of the project's originator, DJ Delorie. Although: "Since C++ is integral to gcc, djgpp no longer stands for "DJ's G++" but probably stands for something like "DJ's GNU Programming Platform"." [2] [1] https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/ https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/ [2] https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html
- billpg 3y agoDOS: "One of our commands allows separation of filenames with a + symbol, so we need to prohibit that character." "Couldn't we rework that command to not use + separators?" "No, far better to take that character out of consideration." Unix: "Filenames can use control characters. I don't care if that makes pipes between commands really complicated! Add an option for NUL-separated filenames if you have to."
- ale42 3y agoAhah... it was long ago the last time I typed a command like this... copy /b file1+file2 output