Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: jo... Douglas W. Jones201H MLH31...
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 21:40

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>From article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>,
by pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch):
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> How about other creatively named programs?

There's always the programming language FLOBN.  The name is an acronym,
and it stands for "For the Lack Of a Better Name."  It was implemented
by Frank Maberry at the University of Illinois back in the 1970's.

					Doug Jones
					jo...@herky.cs.uiowa.edu

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