• Klear@quokk.au
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    3 months ago

    So if I’m getting it right, gobject is short for gnugnu(…)gnuimptklibobject.

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      3 months ago

      Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn’t matter and you can write anything you want there.

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      3 months ago

      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.

    • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      It’s recursive so it’s more like gnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnu…