Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Gyan Mathur wrote:
>
> > In response to Philip Hazel:
> >
> > > It was "EXperimental Internet Mailer" in fact.
> >
> > In the interests of historical context, is this the first major piece
> > of software written at Cambridge University _not_ to be named after an
> > actual or mythical bird? I'd assumed, without giving it much thought,
> > that it was an avian acronym in the way that GCAL was.
>
> No. The prime counter-example must surely be BCPL, but I'm sure there
> are many others.
I was once pecked by an angry bcpl once - but my pet haggis chased it
away!
Sorry - I'm feeling whimsical today!!!
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