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Free software has some glib naming conventions (feddit.uk)
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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I.......I lost track of what just happened. G stands for......something, I imagine.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(((gnu)imp)tk)lib)object)

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ah a cursed dialect of lisp that's inversed.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Jraphics

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce "gif"?

Is it gif?

Or is it gif?