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> Emacs got rewritten separately for the Lisp machine as EINE (EINE Is Not EMACS), parallel with Multics Emacs also written in Lisp, and an improved EINE later
by skibz 2y ago
> Emacs got rewritten separately for the Lisp machine as EINE (EINE Is Not EMACS), parallel with Multics Emacs also written in Lisp, and an improved EINE later became ZWEI (ZWEI Was EINE Initially).
These recursive acronyms are causing a stack overflow in my brain.
Very well played.
- munchler 2y agoThe clever part isn't just the recursion. These translate (almost) as "one" and "two" in German.
- javajosh 2y agoIndeed. Erbsenzähler comment: "eine" is the singular "a" for a feminine object, "zwei" is actually just "two". "Ein" is "one".
- nuxi 2y agoI'm not German, but if I recall correctly: - "Eins" is for the actual number "one" - "Ein" is "a" for masculine/neuter genders - "Ein" is also used for expressing the amount, e.g. "ein Auto, zwei Autos" That said, high school was a long time ago, so I might be way off :)
- javajosh 2y agoYou're right! Oops.