On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Open a bottle, pour a glass full of your favourite drinkable wine and read > this: > No can do. I'm allergic to grape wine. Cause "intestinal distress". > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) > > (That page also has a link to "recursive acronym") > > >And, yes, I know that it is considered an emulator and the acronym usage > is a bit passé any more. > > Sometimes developers need to think out a strange acronym or something > funny to attract attention to get their products out... > I blame Richard M. Stallman. He coined one of the, if not the, first such with GNU: GNU is Not Unix. Along with a number of programs which start with "ya" for "yet another". Like "yacc" => "yet another compiler compiler". "yash" => yet another shell. > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- 3 minutes ago <https://twitter.com/UnixToolTip/status/613710250571603969> Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore. If someone tell you that nothing is impossible: Ask him to dribble a football. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
