Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: meis... Michael Meissner
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 23:00

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In article <35...@syma.sussex.ac.uk> ji...@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jim Skea)
writes:

| Noone has yet mentioned the computer algebra system for General Relativity
| (talk about esoteric?) called SHEEP: it's not an acronym, but it was a
| devlopment of the earlier program, Lisp Algebraic Manipulator, called
| (you guessed it) LAM.
| 
| Ho ho.
| 
| Anyone out there know of similar progressions (apart from the B->C->C++)?

The other standard progression is in parser generators:

	yacc -> bison -> ox

(I think there was one more, but I can't remember it).
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Michael Meissner	email: meis...@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
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