On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:49:57AM -0500, Bill McCarthy wrote:
> Hello Vim List,
>
> I listened to Bram's BOF this past weekend. I still don't
> know what BOF means.
>
> >From Wikipedia:
>
> BoF is an acronym for:
>
> Basic Oxygen Furnace
> Birds of a Feather
> beginning of file
> Body-on-frame
> Breath of Fire
>
[snip]
> I would guess Birds of a Feather. Which is it?
Yes, I think that is right. It is used in the aphorism "Birds of a
feather flock together." At a large meeting, a group of people with a
common interest (or some other commonality) may be referred to as BOF
and hold a BOF session.
HTH --Benji Fisher