On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:10, Duncan wrote:
> If I don't miss my guess, "The Gimp", was a DELIBERATE play on the
> above meaning, in the same "finger to the man" anti-corporate
> poking-fun-at-society deliberate way the Linux community has such
> applications as "Scrotum" [...], "BitchX", and "Pimp-Ass Newsreader"

And Pathetic Writer, part of SIAG Office.

My personal favourite is this descriptively named "Eight-Instruction 
Turing-Complete Programming Language" from Muppet Labs (not your 
grandfather's Muppets, it seems):

    http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/

...and here's an interpreter for it written in itself (plus links to a 
translator-to-C for it)...

    http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ha_bf_inter.html

Cheers; Leon


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