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Post #At77SbDvSWWEF9dHBQ by [email protected] |
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The GNU "nano" text editor is named by analogy, after an earlier (non… |
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Post #At79V0e86p5VZtAMZk by [email protected] |
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@simontatham I don’t have a long chain, but I have a funny name origin. Back … |
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Post #At7ACYyMMPYwUVOdxg by [email protected] |
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@simontatham And here’s one that is as long, but not longer. In the 1970s, St… |
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Post #At7JBiQ2eVYH5R10Nc by [email protected] |
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@simontatham jira, bugzilla, Mozilla, godzilla - not longer but I like it becau… |
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Post #At7UxCsCLDlCe227UG by [email protected] |
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@simontatham Tangentially, Pine was not only named by analogy with Elm, but als… |
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Post #At7UxCzzsDzz2DgLdw by [email protected] |
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@ilmari indeed, and if you believe the official story, also "Program for I… |
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Post #At7UxD75RrfbOD00h6 by [email protected] |
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@simontatham @ilmari in the Oughts, one of my coworkers, a mutt user, said he u… |
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Post #At7aUZYRX6VeJhWRqi by [email protected] |
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@simontatham GTK was the GIMP ToolKit, which is the GNU Image Manipulation Prog… |
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Post #At7aUZfX6kBGfgq6ts by [email protected] |
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@anselmschueler but most of those steps are referring directly to the name of t… |
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Post #At7aUZmGhhZJ0ZzUOm by [email protected] |
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@simontatham How about:F# is named after C#C# is named after C++C++ is named af… |
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Post #At7aUZsILIOBJGoInA by [email protected] |
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@anselmschueler hmmm, I _think_ I might be prepared to count three of those ste… |
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Post #At7aWp4qn61X2SknA0 by [email protected] |
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@simontatham @mwl not sure if it’s generational per se, but there’s a lot o… |
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Post #At7aWpBEPN7zMFjt6e by [email protected] |
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@calcifer @mwl ah, yes, and the other really well known Firefox name-derivative… |
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Post #At7abXzJkuh3U9Q0iO by [email protected] |
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@simontatham And Elm was the best email client *ever*! Did things that I've… |
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Post #At7abY77HuvpsL4Es4 by [email protected] |
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@mikro2nd @simontatham I used it for an long time, until it succumbed to softwa… |
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Post #At7aeZmNYI39uSoKeG by [email protected] |
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@simontatham TECO (tape editor and corrector) begat EMACS, Initially a collecti… |
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Post #At7ahDg0BcOYEB5YTg by [email protected] |
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@simontatham also, Pine stands for Pine Is Not Elm. |
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Post #At7alVaBYNnKvAPfLE by [email protected] |
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@paco very nice! I suppose that's in the same spirit as "less" be… |
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Post #At7apY3aIRrBkk5fsG by [email protected] |
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@simontatham also, 'pine' means pain in Danish, which is one of those t… |
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Post #At7apYBjo8NYA1uBaC by [email protected] |
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@mk @simontatham How does English "pain" and French "pain" … |
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Post #At7apYJtJotuZJihI8 by [email protected] |
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@mk @simontatham I mean, you could say that a baguette in your rectum is a pain… |
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Post #At7apYQcumHwuCs4n2 by [email protected] |
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@m @simontatham I keep forgetting you do things a bit differently out west. |
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Post #At7appHgFIEXBNofho by [email protected] |
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@paco my favourite part about bison is the more complex of its two pieces of dr… |
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Post #At7atjxtxnnZqPQo76 by [email protected] |
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@paco @simontatham Hmmm. And then Terrence Parr wrote ANTLR, which is also a pa… |
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Post #At7atk3ZciKs805KxE by [email protected] |
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@suetanvil @paco but, weirdly given the name, _not_ an LR-based one! |
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@simontatham To my lasting shame, younger me wrote LOVE (Lasu's own version… |
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Post #At7auS4pxNUSef0y24 by [email protected] |
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@simontatham Pagers more -> less -> most also stop after two steps, unles… |
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Post #At7awfHfpAA4C94eYq by [email protected] |
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@simontatham babi is named for the author’s frequent typo of nano https://git… |
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Post #At7b2ASnKMfoLNtqjo by [email protected] |
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@anselmschueler @simontatham and isn't B a cut down (and thus named after b… |
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Post #At7b2AaEsgd0iTNnLE by [email protected] |
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@DrHyde @simontatham possibly |
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Post #At7b37CsvA0IX7uTdA by [email protected] |
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@simontatham Does 'micro' count? Meant to be a more feature-packed alte… |
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Post #At7b37KgSAF4vJYhmq by [email protected] |
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@lunarloony ooh, that's a tricky edge case! If micro was named specifically… |
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@mikro2nd I never used it – I got into email with Pine, because my university… |
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Post #At7b3vLoUEr43ITJUO by [email protected] |
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@simontatham It was especially good at filing/folder management and filtering w… |
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Post #At7b4TN4063bZ1Jn9s by [email protected] |
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@simontatham Not only is pine an acronym/initialism, and a recursive one at tha… |
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Post #At7b4TTnb3RdtuTAem by [email protected] |
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@xenotrope but I'm not counting cases where the name of one thing just _men… |
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Post #At7b4m28c7blRcfqgC by [email protected] |
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@simontatham @ilmari The originators of Pine from University of Washington migh… |
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Post #At7b4m8sD4znmVpEB6 by [email protected] |
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@paulehoffman @simontatham @ilmari Sadly Mark Crispin https://en.wikipedia.org/… |
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Post #At7b5BmmromHJXgxMW by [email protected] |
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@liw @simontatham I can also mention emacs, which gave us 'eine' (ein … |
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@ParadeGrotesque @liw @simontatham A little know fact is that emacs means zero … |
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Post #At7b5C21x8yG4op87c by [email protected] |
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@oblomovNice try.@liw @simontatham |
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Post #At7b63DuBixf2zmrUO by [email protected] |
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@mgedmin @simontatham there is dog and cat as well ;-)(well, the `dog` command … |
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Post #At7b6FM94ugOg1jc00 by [email protected] |
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@simontatham Kind of like how the band Better Than Ezra came about because the … |
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Post #At7b740Gm0UHkwtMTw by [email protected] |
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@simontatham Perl (pearl) as a gemstone that comes from (a) Shell / csh / sea … |
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Post #At7b7xaK7f0W8hBQoa by [email protected] |
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@simontatham there once was "gnome" for "generally not the origi… |
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@liw @simontatham If I ever make a vi fork, I'll call it "vittu" … |
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@suihkulokki, and then you write a language server or something for it and call… |
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Post #At7b8CKvHCbJtH5qOO by [email protected] |
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@andrew_shadura @suihkulokki @simontatham VSPHJP but yes. |
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Post #At7bDkpeRxa0KC7F32 by [email protected] |
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@liw @simontatham if talking about editors it might be worth to mention: mg* ht… |
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@simontatham you may be interested to hear that there's another editor name… |
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@simontatham B > C > C++ > D or Intel's 8080 > 8086 > 80x86 … |
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@ParadeGrotesque @liw @simontatham That's for people with a drei sense of h… |
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@simontatham Is "micro" named after "nano", or doesn't … |
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@simontatham @LucasWerkmeister what is the longest chain of "named after&q… |
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@simontatham @anselmschueler But C++ is an incremented (bigger) C so surely exa… |
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Post #At7bmrz9qViee6J4bo by [email protected] |
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@liw @simontatham I mean, that would have put another meaning to "made wit… |
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@giggls @simontatham I came here to say this. It tickled me to learn it, origin… |
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Post #AtHfJF0c1Vn2lHiJG4 by [email protected] |
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@stu42j @simontatham What is the step from Jira to Bugzilla, analogy-wise? |
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@marcel @simontatham The name Jira is a reference to Gojira which is the origin… |
