From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 04:42:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4620516A582 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:42:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175CB13C455 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:42:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDA268604C9A; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:45:47 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3vDLAys1LEMm; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 6FAF068604C99; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:45:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:45:47 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070117044547.GB23506@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org References: <20070116232656.N46735@prime.gushi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070116232656.N46735@prime.gushi.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 OpenPKG/2.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Origin of LINT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:42:31 -0000 On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no >results, and because I'm curious: > >Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term >"lint" for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin uses it as >well (it's the command line argument to just regression-test everything). I think the name came from removing the lint from a suit. It's designed to clean up code -- initially C. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 "If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury." -- Lysander Spooner, Letter to Grover Cleveland 1886