From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 05:00:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 262D216A407 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12FD13C44B for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:00:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A95133828; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:04:26 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D602B1A9C97; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:04:26 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:04:26 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: System Admin Dan Mahoney Message-ID: <20070117043426.GL1300@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20070116232656.N46735@prime.gushi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HdZAANC5GEQnh8Bp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070116232656.N46735@prime.gushi.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Origin of LINT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:00:03 -0000 --HdZAANC5GEQnh8Bp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, 16 January 2007 at 23:28:51 -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wr= ote: > 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). =46rom K&R 1st edition (1978), page 3: This program is called lint, apparently because it picks bits of fluff from one's programs. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --HdZAANC5GEQnh8Bp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFradSIubykFB6QiMRAte/AKCAHxmlU82Gkt4AQt2Oq1CWFiT8mgCdGVNd 3gKdReezNUxLUb2EFJqqmC0= =qHdI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HdZAANC5GEQnh8Bp--