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.
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.
It’s recursive so it’s more like gnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnu…
Fun fact: The K in GNU stands for Kernel.
KNURD
gotem
Then what does the g in gnu stand for?
you’re not gonna believe this…
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”.
Gary
as in the inventor of chess, THE Gary Chess?
rival of George Checkers?
All the gnus
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.
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 !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
You can easily answer this for yourself by looking up what the G stands for.
Wait…
The G in GNU stands for JPEG.
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.
gnusnotuniximagemanipulationtoolkitlibraryobject
Sequel to The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion by Michael Ende nobody asked for.
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
It originally did not. Then it did for a time. Now it does not.
TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm
idk let’s ask yaml
And Linux Is Not Unix.
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?
(((gnu)imp)tk)lib)object)
Ah a cursed dialect of lisp that’s inversed.
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.
The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest
Never thought about it and I’m gonna go back to not thinking about it
Opportunity missed in not calling it
GnObject.Also glibc
Which is the actual GNU C Library
Oh so what’s g in grep and git stand for?
Global, and Linus.
Grep is g/re/p. Global, Regular Expression, Print.
gobject [Gobject]
Obgect
Sustained
Not to be confused with glibc. Where the g does actually stand for gnu.
When I met rms, I said “gnoperating system” lmao
