Comments on: The guys who created UNIX must think they’re pretty clever

By: steev

steev — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:32:21 +0000

My Required Name: Not to be antagonistic, but do I know you? You would appear to hail from The Netherlands, and I know of only one acquaintance who is even close by.

Did you come across this site from one of the other sites “affiliated” with ping-o-matic?

Finally, just as a matter of personal taste, I don’t find recursive acronyms to be nearly as clever as some of the wonderful entries I’ve found in the *NIX manpages over the years.

Cheers,
steev

By: Paulo

Paulo — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:03:24 +0000

I normally don’t do this but whoever posted that first comment should really sign their name. Especially with a post like that.

Just a courtesy thing.

Also. . . “ain’t” is not a word

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:11:43 +0000

Wow – pretty snazzy commands. I thought I’ve had some “clever” conversations before, but nothing that rivals getting that kind of stuff.

By: My Required Name

My Required Name — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:12:57 +0000

The guys who created Unix *are* pretty clever. Smart people like word play (and build OSes!). Even the name Unix is a pun on an OS that was seen as pretty bad at the time (Multics).

GNU’s Not Unix
LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder
WINE Is Not an Emulator