Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Do You Know?
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Do You Know? Post 302209938 by reborg on Sunday 29th of June 2008 11:01:47 AM
Old 06-29-2008
The GNU is very simple.

Lisp is a programming language in which recursive logic is very common. Richard Stallman was/is a lisp programmer. The naming is a lisp programmer's play on words, using recursive logic. The G doesn't actually stand for anything and is self referential (and thus recursive). It's a simple as that.

The logic of KDE is a little different, KDE was simply chosen because in many languages K and C are pronounced the same way. This time it's a play on sound. There is nothing more to it than that.
 
KEUROCALC(1)						      General Commands Manual						      KEUROCALC(1)

NAME
keurocalc -- A KDE-based universal currency converter and calculator. SYNOPSIS
keurocalc [--help] [--help-kde] [--help-qt] [--version -v] [--license] [--author] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the keurocalc command. keurocalc is a KDE-based universal currency converter and calculator. It downloads latest exchange rates directly from the European Cen- tral Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. However, the ordering is very strict - --help/-h must come before hostname. -v --version Show version information. --author Show information about the author. --license Show license information. --caption <caption> AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Claudio Moratti <maxer@knio.it> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. KEUROCALC(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:07 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy