From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>,
Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>, <binutils@sources.redhat.com>,
<gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bfd_read and bfd_write
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sibskimtbp.fsf@daffy.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0109101320590.69337-100000@dair.pair.com>
Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> On 10 Sep 2001, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> > > If it didn't have a slightly wacky twist, it wouldn't be a good
> > > name. :-) I still don't get the original BFD one, though.
> >
> > Which original BFD one?
>
> That BFD (also) alludes to something other than Binary File
> Descriptor, because of this passage from bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo,
> node History:
> "The name came from a conversation David Wallace was having with
> Richard Stallman about the library: RMS said that it would be
> quite hard---David said ``BFD''. Stallman was right, but the
> name stuck."
> Me not native speaker. Could it be as profane as "big f..ng deal"?
It could be and it is.
Ian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-10 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-04 22:20 Alan Modra
2001-09-05 9:45 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-05 12:21 ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-05 17:26 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-05 18:52 ` Alan Modra
2001-09-05 20:03 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-06 10:33 ` Nick Clifton
2001-09-18 3:27 ` Alan Modra
2001-09-19 11:58 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-20 9:52 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-05 23:15 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-09-06 0:01 ` Alan Modra
2001-09-05 20:13 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2001-09-05 20:30 ` Alan Modra
2001-09-08 22:42 ` Jim Blandy
2001-09-09 7:24 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2001-09-10 9:51 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-09-10 17:56 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2001-09-10 18:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
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