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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!popocat.d-and-d.com!popocat.d-and-d.com!not-for-mail From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:52:23 -0500 Organization: D and D Data, Vienna VA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <568e7n$5a4@windigo.d-and-d.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <3286fd63.1215327@news.ov.com> Reply-To: dnichols@d-and-d.com NNTP-Posting-Host: windigo.d-and-d.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26285 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1466 alt.folklore.computers:124422 In article <3286fd63.1215327@news.ov.com>, Pete Barber <pete.barber@openv.co.uk> wrote: >On this theme, do you know wy the language forth is spelt such. It >was supposed to be a foUrth generation language but the IBM it was >written on only supported five letter commands hence forth. Well ... close but ... As I heard it -- at a seminar pushing the language by its commercial side, the author was an astromomer, and the language sort of grew as it followed him from site to site. *One* of the systems on which he did some of the development had such a limitation, but it had started out on a system which was a little more forgiving, and had been spelled normally then. -- Email: <dnichols@d-and-d.com> | Donald Nichols (DoN.) Voice Days: (703) 704-2280 | Eves: (703) 938-4564 My Concertina web page: | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---