Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: Greg Goss
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 11:08

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Perhaps it's considered too obvious to a bunch of Unix hacks, but the recursive
name of GNU is interesting.  Some of us are fascinated by recursion.

GNU stands for Gnu is Not Unix, where GNU stands for ...

.../greg

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