From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 28 16:34:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11430 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 16:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA11425 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 16:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id RAA18669; Wed, 28 May 1997 17:33:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199705282333.RAA18669@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [alt.humor.best-of-usenet] [comp.unix.shell] unix acronyms -collecting a list? To: tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:33:51 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <8767w6pu97.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from "Thomas Gellekum" at May 26, 97 09:28:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com