• starmanEnglish
    27·
    8 months ago

    Linux

    • has boring name

    Hurd

    • has mutually recursive name
    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

      — Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell

      Wow TIL