[Barry Warsaw, on the origin of BDFL] > I’d put my money on Uncle Timmy coining that term,
Don't be insulting, Barry. I have no patience - let alone love - for frivolous wordplay. It wasn't me, but Guido doesn't remember either. Here's his best guess: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=235725 Short course: BDFL first appeared in a 1995 email sent by Ken Manheimer summarizing a PSA meeting. Guido was apparently named at that meeting as *First Interim Benevolent Dicator* [sic]* for Life* and While I can't prove my title (with or without the First Interim prefix) was > never used before, I'm pretty certain that it originated in this meeting. > Given what I know of how their minds work, it was most likely invented by > Ken Manheimer or Barry Warsaw, though it may well have been a joint > invention by all present. Some titles just _fit_. Like Kim Jong Il's Great Man, Who Is a Man of Deeds and Dear Leader, who is a perfect incarnation of the appearance that a leader should have More inspiring ideas where those came from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kim_Jong-il%27s_titles
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