On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 11:18:01AM +1000, Rod Whitworth spoke thusly: > On Sat, 1 May 2010 20:23:50 -0400, Barry Miller wrote: > > >Yes, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I think it's fascinating, > >like, "Why'd they call it 'awk'?" Now there's an acronym for you. > > > Did you leave that as an "exercise for the reader" ? > > It's too easy and, although I'm not spoiling the "exercise", I'll bet > somebody jumps in very soon!
Kersplash! I'm in. ;) [A]ho + [W]einberger + [K]ernighan = AWK Possible alternative definitions: Awesome Word Kinesis Awfully Weird Kool-Aid > *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. > Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is > tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to > reply off list. Thankyou. > > Rod/ > --- > This life is not the real thing. > It is not even in Beta. > If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it. > -- \\\ /// ( @ @ ) +-----------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo-----------------+ =============================================================== Denny White - denny...@cableone.net GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A =============================================================== () ASCII ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ===============================================================