Date: 26 May 1997 09:28:20 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: [alt.humor.best-of-usenet] [comp.unix.shell] unix acronyms -collecting a list? Message-ID: <8767w6pu97.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: Felix von Leitner <felix@math.fu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [comp.unix.shell] unix acronyms -collecting a list? Followup-To: alt.humor.best-of-usenet.d Date: 24 May 1997 08:27:00 -0700 Organization: best of usenet humor Message-ID: <ahbou=337B2D1F.60B0@dragon.illusions.com> Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? From: "Karl E. Taylor" <ktaylor@dragon.illusions.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.x, alt.os.linux, comp.unix.bsd.misc, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, gnu.misc.discuss, comp.unix.solaris Tony Walton wrote: > yacc == yet another compiler compiler > > -- > Tony -- No, no, no! I have it on not one good shread of evidence that it happened this way. Two hippies at Berkely in the early to mid 70's, after a long night of pursuing a checked pharmicutical history, where working in the computer lab when one of the guys felt the night befor was about to make another apperance. He leaned over to his friends desk and put is face it to the trash can and proceeded to see breakfast come back to haunt him. To this his highly enlightned friend stated "Hey man, would you not yacc in my trash can, ooooo, yacc, yea man, they'll never figure that one out." 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? -- Moderators accept or reject articles based solely on the criteria posted in the Frequently Asked Questions. Article content is the responsibility of the submitter. Submit articles to ahbou-sub@acpub.duke.edu. To write to the moderators, send mail to ahbou-mod@acpub.duke.edu. ------- End of forwarded message -------
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