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

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From: k... Kees Goossens
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 10:43
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In article <markd.654652851@sunchat> ma...@iti.org (Mark Delany) writes:
>pk...@axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Katz) writes:
>
>>In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>, pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
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>><> How about other creatively named programs?
>
>>jove	Jonathon's Own Version of Emacs
>>twm	Tom's window manager (?)

JOVIAL	Jule's own version of Algol.
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From: k...@cs.ed.ac.uk (Kees Goossens)
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)
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Date: 4 Oct 90 10:43:18 GMT
References: <45094@apple.Apple.COM> <2288@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Sep26.124934.9580@cs.utk.edu> <2296@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Sep28.164046@axion.bt.co.uk> <markd.654652851@sunchat>
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