On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no >results, and because I'm curious: > >Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term >"lint" for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin uses it as >well (it's the command line argument to just regression-test everything).
I think the name came from removing the lint from a suit. It's designed to clean up code -- initially C. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 "If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury." -- Lysander Spooner, Letter to Grover Cleveland 1886 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"