• FlatFootFox@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    The two hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.

  • Ziglin (they/them)@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    Wait why didn’t they keep unpacking the recursive acronym further? GNU’s Not Unix’s Not Unix’s Not Unix’s Not Unix I’d say that’s a pretty good amount although if there’s a mathematical way of formulating the unpacking of acronyms in a text I’d like to see the that repeated until infinity.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      5 days ago

      Just put it in a formal grammar:

      GNU -> GNU's Not Unix's
GNU -> gnu
GIMP -> GNU image manipulation program
  • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Also, almost all of that is written in C, which is a successor to B, which is a simplified version of the Basic Combined Programming Language. There was never an A.