On Tuesday, 16 January 2007 at 23:28:51 -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no > results, and because I'm curious: > > Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term > "lint" for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin uses it as > well (it's the command line argument to just regression-test everything).
From K&R 1st edition (1978), page 3: This program is called lint, apparently because it picks bits of fluff from one's programs. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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