Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:33:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [alt.humor.best-of-usenet] [comp.unix.shell] unix acronyms -collecting a list? Message-ID: <199705282333.RAA18669@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <8767w6pu97.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from "Thomas Gellekum" at May 26, 97 09:28:20 am
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> > yacc == yet another compiler compiler
>
> And thus yacc, an otherwise semi-normal bodily function, entered into
> the UNIX relm and we have been yacc'n ever since. ;-)
>
> Well, it could have happend, right?
Nope - yacc didn't come from Berkeley, it came from Bell Labs. Given
the pedestrian nature of central New Jersey, the programming was probably
yaccing up pizza and (excessive amounts of) beer. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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