"Etc" Term Connotation (etc) :D

Saturday, March 03, 2007
Pardon the inherent PJ that is the topic of this post.
But as usual,that is not the issooo.
A damn funny discussion is going on here about what does "etc" stand for in /etc(*No* further explanation) . I vote for "et cetera", but that misses the point entirely.The FUN point,that is.


The top Backronymns is :
Editable Text Configuration

Stallman ishtlye(Left Recursive):
Etc Text Configuration.

etc(don't pardon the pun) :
Extended tool chest
Enormous Trove of Configuration files

But some smart Aleck spoiled all the fun:

And, as another user pointed out "editable text configurations" is a stupid name too, because if it's text, it's evidently editable. So why not just "text configurations" then? Also, in early Unix, everything was editable (remember, in Unix, everything is a file), so that's superfluous too. And, lastly, it was the repository for a lot of things that weren't configurations, including binaries.
Again, this is a backronym, and not even a clever one.
Taking a cue from "Editable Text Configuration", The below list was created.
Keep your floors clean,coz you may have to ROFL..

emacs - Escape Meta Alt Control Shift.
gdb - Get Down Baby. (ROFL^n)
gcc - Give Communism (a) Chance.
linux - Linus Is Not Usually Xeroflulogitic.
lisp - Lisp Is (for) Symbolic Programming.
java - Just Another Variant (of) Ada.
perl - Perl Essentially Resembles Lisp.
printf - People Rarely Insist (on) Naming This Function.
sed - Slashdot (is) Easily Duped.
top - Totally Ongoing Programs.
vi - Very Irritating.
...Or maybe not.Ok,These are funny UNIX commands you can try.

#make babies
Don't know how to make babies

>make sense
can't make sense

If there is a virus on your system
>virus
virus: not found.

$ man woman
No manual entry for woman

Still dont see the humour?
OK,now you can go to hell.

2 comments:

Harish said...

vi - Very Irritating. It can be "Very Interesting" too

Sandesh said...

"E"xtremly "T"eriffi"C" ????