flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uk to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 8 days agoFree software has some glib naming conventionsfeddit.ukimagemessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up11.19Kfile-text
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minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·7 days agoI…I lost track of what just happened. G stands for…something, I imagine.
minus-squareAnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 days ago(((gnu)imp)tk)lib)object)
minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 days agoAh a cursed dialect of lisp that’s inversed.
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 days agoOh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce “gif”? Is it gif? Or is it gif?
minus-squareStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 days agoWell it kind of stands for nothing, because at the center of this onion is GNU, which is recursive. It stands for “GNU’s Not UNIX”, so the G in GNU stands for GNU.
I…I lost track of what just happened. G stands for…something, I imagine.
(((gnu)imp)tk)lib)object)
Ah a cursed dialect of lisp that’s inversed.
The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest
Jraphics
Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce “gif”?
Is it gif?
Or is it gif?
Well it kind of stands for nothing, because at the center of this onion is GNU, which is recursive. It stands for “GNU’s Not UNIX”, so the G in GNU stands for GNU.