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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:48:10AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure. I've got that somewhere in my lecture notes from last 
> winter, but according to Clem Cole, the only unix command that is not an 
> acronym of some sort is biff, which was named after a dog.
> "Derek D. Martin" wrote:
> > Common myth says that AWK was named from the first letters of the
> > authors.  The truth is it's just short for AWKward programming
> > language...

Er... that was a joke. :)

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