On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:52, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:10, Duncan wrote: > > If I don't miss my guess, "The Gimp", was a DELIBERATE play on the > > above meaning, in the same "finger to the man" anti-corporate > > poking-fun-at-society deliberate way the Linux community has such > > applications as "Scrotum" [...], "BitchX", and "Pimp-Ass Newsreader" > > And Pathetic Writer, part of SIAG Office. > > My personal favourite is this descriptively named "Eight-Instruction > Turing-Complete Programming Language" from Muppet Labs (not your > grandfather's Muppets, it seems): > > http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/ > > ...and here's an interpreter for it written in itself (plus links to a > translator-to-C for it)... > > http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ha_bf_inter.html > > Cheers; Leon
One must not forget the ill fated M$ Reader conversion tool (Converit Liturature) which used the C from Convert and the first 3 letters of liturature. Great product... lousy name. James > >
