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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh and then you get all the projects with recursive acronyms, like WINE Is Not Emulation, MAME Ain't (an) Mp3 Encoder, and of course GNU's Not Unix.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

MAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

You're thinking of LAME. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

See why those names are kinda dumb? You end up with a lot of fairly similar 4 letter words.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Noted. When I develop an essential piece of software, I will name it George.