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Re: What's "gno"?



mdj wrote:
 > And the whole "X is not Y" naming conceit started with students at
MIT's

AI Lab, and was applied to several programs.  (BTW, the ritual "foo"
and "bar" identifiers [from FUBAR of course] also originated there,
as did "hack" and much else. ;-)


And even more amusingly, its etymology is discussed in an RFC:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html

I *love* it!  ;-)

-michael

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