from my infinite storehouse of useless facts:

grep and sed and really acronyms for global regular expression parser and stream editor. Awk was named for the 3 people who developed the language: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan

Tony Gravagno wrote:



I stopped thinking anything was silly in IT after grep, awk, and
sed.  The trend started decades ago when names like "Johnson
Software Co" were all taken.  This is just the world we live in.

T



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