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Free software has some glib naming conventions
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I.......I lost track of what just happened. G stands for......something, I imagine.
(((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
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Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce "gif"?
Is it gif?
Or is it gif?