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

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From: ma... Mark Delany
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 00:00

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pk...@axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Katz) writes:

>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' !!

Well, on the Univac 1100's the debugger is/was called FLIT. Which ostensibly
stood for Fault Location by Interpretive Testing. But many also new it
to be a brand-name for a fly-spray.

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