and the g in gnu stands for gnu
So if I’m getting it right, gobject is short for gnugnu(…)gnuimptklibobject.
gnuplestiltskin
Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn’t matter and you can write anything you want there.
Gnugnugnufuckyou
It is front recursive so it’s really “…is not unix is not unix is not unix is not unix image manipulation program tool kit object” and that first g doesn’t exist.
Now you need to write a layer of typedefs to map the expanded names back to their original types.
It’s recursive so it’s more like gnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnu…
Fun fact: The K in GNU stands for Kernel.
KNURD
gotem
GNU does have a kernel though
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Did make me actually laugh.
Then what does the g in gnu stand for?
you’re not gonna believe this…
I’ve got g’news for you…
g’news and g’day to you as well, g’lady!
I think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn’t… GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix”.
My guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of “new”.
gnot unix
Gary
as in the inventor of chess, THE Gary Chess?
rival of George Checkers?
All the gnus
Greatsoftware Notwithstanding Unix
gnu
Okay but what does the g stand for?
Blue Gnu or Black Gnu?
Yeah, they missed the best part.
GNU stands for GNU’s Not Unix, which is a recursive acronym. And, when pronounced properly (like the animal) the G is silent. The entire Linux ecosystem has words that start with G based on an acronym where G essentially comes from nowhere, and isn’t actually pronounced.
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
So it depends on whether you want to pronounce it “properly” or as it was intended.
The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!”; it is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like “grew” but with the letter n instead of r.
gnew?
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
Yeah, but that’s wrong. It’s named after the animal, and the animal is pronounced without a G sound. I’m not going to mangle the pronunciation because they screwed up.
Depends on where you’re from.
Noot noot mother fucker
Gnoot gnoot
I can’t believe they didn’t put this one in there!
Is it pronounced gnu or jnu?
Are you gnu here?
Jnu enough to stoke an ancient flame war for my personal entertainment.
Yer such a wildebeest!
What can I say, I’m a candidate for [email protected]
You must have jift for that
They’ll be back in a jiff.
You can easily answer this for yourself by looking up what the G stands for.
Wait…
The G in GNU stands for JPEG.
Unironic answer, the “g” is pronounced, but obviously like the g in give or great, not like j.
@[email protected] @[email protected] it’s pronounced .GIF
The G in GIF stands for Graphical, but the G in Graphical stands for Graham Crackers, the G in Graham Crackers stands for God, and the G in God stands for Gnu. From there it’s Gnus all the way down. Also, God pronounces “Graphical” with a soft G as in Jod.
Also, God pronounces “Graphical” with a soft G as in Jod.
🤣
It’s pronounced Jee Iuayh Eff (G I F)
like XCF or PDF
Surely you mean Gee.
The G is silent
It is in jnu.
Depends what language you pronounce it in.
A topic with a a lot of gnuances.
Does the g in gspot also stand for gnu?
Believe it or not, yes.
That is why large companies don’t want you to find where it is. The application of proprietary condoms to GNU licensed body parts would taint them with gpl license.
it actually stands for garam masala
and the g in gnu also stands for gnu
Yeah - supposed to be the pinnacle
and the g in gnu also stands for gnu
thank you
i expected this sooner xD
gnusnotuniximagemanipulationtoolkitlibraryobject
Sequel to The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion by Michael Ende nobody asked for.
Just a regular German word. Please keep walking, nothing to see here.
In case you were wondering the ‘w’ in ‘wine’ stands for ‘wine’, and the full acronym is ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’. What do you think the ‘w’ in ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’ stands for?
I once tried to play “PHP” in Scrabble and argued that it should be infinite points.
The opponent didn’t agree.
It’s personal home page and I don’t care if they retconed it
As a younger teen trying to get starcraft running on my linux box, my parents were definitely upset when they saw me browsing “winehq”. They thought I was trying to get booze shipped to our house :D
TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm
It originally did not. Then it did for a time. Now it does not.
And Linux Is Not Unix.
idk let’s ask yaml
Things to do on Christmas:
- Unwrap gifts ❌
- Unwrap acronyms ✔️
I wish we knew some new gnu jokes.
I wish we gknew some gnew gnu jokes.
I wish we gnu some gnu jokes
I…I lost track of what just happened. G stands for…something, I imagine.
Jraphics
Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce “gif”?
Is it gif?
Or is it gif?
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.
(((gnu)imp)tk)lib)object)
Ah a cursed dialect of lisp that’s inversed.
The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest
I remember a time when almost every category of tool had something named “Yet Another [Thing]” because there were already so many options to choose from when they decided to make their own.
Yet Another Better Barrel Attempt (YABBA)
You just unlocked a core direwolf20 memory
Yeah, like YAML, which’s name originally meant "Yet Another Markup Language*.
Then they redubbed it to mean “YAML Ain’t Markup Language”, because well, it isn’t actually a markup language. 🫠
Yams is really good btw
Hierarchical Officious Oracle
Gnus and gnomes can break my bones?
nobbes. they breeak your nobbes
Never thought about it and I’m gonna go back to not thinking about it
Opportunity missed in not calling it
GnObject.
