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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!venus.sun.com!uk-usenet.uk.sun.com!usenet From: Tony Walton <tony.walton@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:42:35 +0100 Organization: SunService UK Lines: 24 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <337AE89B.1B6D@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lanka.uk.sun.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44969 comp.os.linux.misc:175358 comp.os.linux.x:61590 alt.os.linux:21159 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3229 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40919 gnu.misc.discuss:31267 comp.unix.solaris:106553 Wayne Cochran - CS wrote: > > tla = three letter acronymn Three Letter Abbreviation (it's not necessarily an acronym) > awk = Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan ISTR that awk was originally named "awk" after a phrase that often appeared on the screen during the "Batman" TV series (when Batman and Robin were duffing up the Bad Guys things like "POW!", "OOF!", "CRACK!" and of course "AWK!" would appear on the screen with each punch). Why? Why not! Only later, when the Big Bosses asked what "awk" stood for did someone think quickly and claim that it stood for "Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan". An FLA: yacc == yet another compiler compiler -- Tony