On 2013-11-06 16:52, Pommier, Rex wrote:
I would have to say that my 'favorite' <cough, cough> *nix commands has to be awk. Talk about a command name having nothing to do with the function. For those who don't know, awk is the first letters of the last names of the 3 people who invented it. It is a text manipulation language.
That reminds me of the first "full" screen editor I encountered in life (if you count using the first ten lines of a 3277 as full screen!), called GP/5. The GP stood for "Gord's Program". I wasn't the Gord referenced in the name, though, and never did learn who this other Gord was.
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