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Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)

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From: pk... Philip Katz
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 15:40
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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>, pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:

<> How about other creatively named programs?

jove	Jonathon's Own Version of Emacs
twm	Tom's window manager (?)

	... and wasn't the debugger on TOP-20 called `ddt' !!

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From: pk...@axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Katz)
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)
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