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* Obligatory Pine joke here *

(I know the Elm people don't like jokes about the email client. Tough; they should have picked a name that wasn't already used.)

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> Obligatory Pine joke here

But Pine Is Not Elm.

I wonder how many of today's Linux users don't get why the editor is named nano. The fact that you can trace the name back to "electronic mail" is my favorite command-name joke in an environment full of them.

(If you missed the chain, it was

1. "electronic mail" = "elm"

2. "pine" as a joke on "elm" -- though I believe they deny the "PINE Is Not Elm" derivation, it's still pretty clearly a reference to elm

3. "pico" the editor as "PIne COmposer"

4. "nano" as a joke on "pico".)

And let's not forget that less(1) is more(1) ;) (And there's also a most(1), because of course there is;p)

More of an "mh" dude myself. It was an efficient and pleasantly humorless system. :-)

I didn't realize there was that much of a backstory behind nano's name! Thanks for sharing!

Maybe they like jokes about it somewhat but think people joke about it too much, and the way to get them to joke about it less is to pretend not to like it at all.

I think that's what happened with Clojure and people coming up with jure puns on it (compujure, etc).

https://github.com/Raynes/lein-newnew/blob/master/src/leinin...

I’ve found that Elm people don’t like jokes in general.

Is this statement also a joke? :)

I thought of Oak (later 'Java'), too.

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