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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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311 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wpollock ◴[11 Dec 25 18:50 UTC] No.46235391[source]▶
If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called "emacs" does?
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pesus ◴[11 Dec 25 19:02 UTC] No.46235591[source]▶
I still think of the short-lived Apple eMac when I read it.
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1. accrual ◴[11 Dec 25 23:32 UTC] No.46238864[source]▶
Same! I had eMacs in school and loved them, they were my first exposure to the array of characters "emac".