From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Ada for MacOS/BeOS
Date: 1997/12/13
Date: 1997-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66ue76$p28$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.881885975@merv
In article <dewar.881885975@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>I don't know what GNU'ed means, most likely it is a misprint for GPL'ed.
>GNU is the name of an operating system, and even in the most generous
>interpretation of the allowance of verbizing in English, I cannot see
>how GNU can be a verb.
At the risk of being even more pedantic, it's actually worse than that.
As a noun, GNU can refer to either an operating or a *project*. The
resulting confusion can be so great that I avoid using GNU as a noun
at all, and use it just as an adjective to qualify what it is that
I'm talking about and encourage everybody else to do likewise.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-13 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-10 0:00 Ada for MacOS/BeOS N DAVIES
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Michele Zundo
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-13 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
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