On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 11:18:01AM +1000, Rod Whitworth spoke thusly:
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> On Sat, 1 May 2010 20:23:50 -0400, Barry Miller wrote:
> 
> >Yes, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I think it's fascinating,
> >like, "Why'd they call it 'awk'?"  Now there's an acronym for you.
> >
> Did you leave that as an "exercise for the reader" ?
> 
> It's too easy and, although I'm not spoiling the "exercise", I'll bet
> somebody jumps in very soon!

Kersplash! I'm in. ;)

[A]ho + [W]einberger + [K]ernighan = AWK

Possible alternative definitions:

Awesome Word Kinesis
Awfully Weird Kool-Aid
 
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> Rod/
> ---
> This life is not the real thing.
> It is not even in Beta.
> If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
> 

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