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- Klear@quokk.auEnglish6 months
So if I’m getting it right, gobject is short for gnugnu(…)gnuimptklibobject.
- 6 months
Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn’t matter and you can write anything you want there.
- 6 months
It is front recursive so it’s really “…is not unix is not unix is not unix is not unix image manipulation program tool kit object” and that first g doesn’t exist.
- 6 months
It’s recursive so it’s more like gnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnu…
- jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish6 months
Now you need to write a layer of typedefs to map the expanded names back to their original types.
- 6 months
I think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn’t… GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix”.
My guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of “new”.
- 6 months
Yeah, they missed the best part.
GNU stands for GNU’s Not Unix, which is a recursive acronym. And, when pronounced properly (like the animal) the G is silent. The entire Linux ecosystem has words that start with G based on an acronym where G essentially comes from nowhere, and isn’t actually pronounced.
- 6 months
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
So it depends on whether you want to pronounce it “properly” or as it was intended.
The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!”; it is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like “grew” but with the letter n instead of r.
- 6 months
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
Yeah, but that’s wrong. It’s named after the animal, and the animal is pronounced without a G sound. I’m not going to mangle the pronunciation because they screwed up.
6 monthsJnu enough to stoke an ancient flame war for my personal entertainment.
- Klear@quokk.auEnglish6 months
You can easily answer this for yourself by looking up what the G stands for.
Wait…
- 6 months
Unironic answer, the “g” is pronounced, but obviously like the g in give or great, not like j.
- 6 months
The G in GIF stands for Graphical, but the G in Graphical stands for Graham Crackers, the G in Graham Crackers stands for God, and the G in God stands for Gnu. From there it’s Gnus all the way down. Also, God pronounces “Graphical” with a soft G as in Jod.
- 6 months
That is why large companies don’t want you to find where it is. The application of proprietary condoms to GNU licensed body parts would taint them with gpl license.
- Klear@quokk.auEnglish6 months
Sequel to The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion by Michael Ende nobody asked for.
- 6 months
In case you were wondering the ‘w’ in ‘wine’ stands for ‘wine’, and the full acronym is ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’. What do you think the ‘w’ in ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’ stands for?
- 6 months
I once tried to play “PHP” in Scrabble and argued that it should be infinite points.
The opponent didn’t agree.
- 6 months
As a younger teen trying to get starcraft running on my linux box, my parents were definitely upset when they saw me browsing “winehq”. They thought I was trying to get booze shipped to our house :D
- 6 months
I…I lost track of what just happened. G stands for…something, I imagine.
- 6 months
Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce “gif”?
Is it gif?
Or is it gif?
Well it kind of stands for nothing, because at the center of this onion is GNU, which is recursive. It stands for “GNU’s Not UNIX”, so the G in GNU stands for GNU.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish6 months
I remember a time when almost every category of tool had something named “Yet Another [Thing]” because there were already so many options to choose from when they decided to make their own.
- Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish6 months
Yeah, like YAML, which’s name originally meant "Yet Another Markup Language*.
Then they redubbed it to mean “YAML Ain’t Markup Language”, because well, it isn’t actually a markup language. 🫠
- 6 months
Never thought about it and I’m gonna go back to not thinking about it
