It’s pretty gsimple
I thought it was called gnome because little gnomes go into your computer to draw the windows
Things to do on Christmas:
- Unwrap gifts ❌
- Unwrap acronyms ✔️
and the g in gnu stands for gnu
So if I’m getting it right, gobject is short for gnugnu(…)gnuimptklibobject.
It is front recursive so it’s really “…is not unix is not unix is not unix is not unix image manipulation program tool kit object” and that first g doesn’t exist.
Now you need to write a layer of typedefs to map the expanded names back to their original types.
gnuplestiltskin
It’s recursive so it’s more like gnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnu…
Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn’t matter and you can write anything you want there.
Gnugnugnufuckyou
Then what does the g in gnu stand for?
you’re not gonna believe this…
I’ve got g’news for you…
g’news and g’day to you as well, g’lady!
Greatsoftware Notwithstanding Unix
I think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn’t… GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix”.
My guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of “new”.
gnot unix
gnu
Okay but what does the g stand for?
Blue Gnu or Black Gnu?
I can’t believe they didn’t put this one in there!
Yeah, they missed the best part.
GNU stands for GNU’s Not Unix, which is a recursive acronym. And, when pronounced properly (like the animal) the G is silent. The entire Linux ecosystem has words that start with G based on an acronym where G essentially comes from nowhere, and isn’t actually pronounced.
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
So it depends on whether you want to pronounce it “properly” or as it was intended.
The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!”; it is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like “grew” but with the letter n instead of r.
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
Yeah, but that’s wrong. It’s named after the animal, and the animal is pronounced without a G sound. I’m not going to mangle the pronunciation because they screwed up.
Depends on where you’re from.
Noot noot mother fucker
Gnoot gnoot
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gnusnotuniximagemanipulationtoolkitlibraryobject
Just a regular German word. Please keep walking, nothing to see here.
Sequel to The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion by Michael Ende nobody asked for.
You’ve been gnomed
At least it’s Not Unix.
Is this what AIX stands for?
Is it pronounced gnu or jnu?
Depends what language you pronounce it in.
You can easily answer this for yourself by looking up what the G stands for.
Wait…
The G in GNU stands for JPEG.
Unironic answer, the “g” is pronounced, but obviously like the g in give or great, not like j.
Are you gnu here?
Jnu enough to stoke an ancient flame war for my personal entertainment.
You must have jift for that
Yer such a wildebeest!
What can I say, I’m a candidate for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
They’ll be back in a jiff.
The G is silent
It is in jnu.
@zqwzzle@lemmy.ca @flamingos@feddit.uk it’s pronounced .GIF
It’s pronounced Jee Iuayh Eff (G I F)
like XCF or PDF
Surely you mean Gee.
The G in GIF stands for Graphical, but the G in Graphical stands for Graham Crackers, the G in Graham Crackers stands for God, and the G in God stands for Gnu. From there it’s Gnus all the way down. Also, God pronounces “Graphical” with a soft G as in Jod.
Also, God pronounces “Graphical” with a soft G as in Jod.
🤣
I…I lost track of what just happened. G stands for…something, I imagine.
(((gnu)imp)tk)lib)object)
Ah a cursed dialect of lisp that’s inversed.
Jraphics
Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce “gif”?
Is it gif?
Or is it gif?
Well it kind of stands for nothing, because at the center of this onion is GNU, which is recursive. It stands for “GNU’s Not UNIX”, so the G in GNU stands for GNU.
The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest
Also glibc
Which is the actual GNU C Library
The G is silent.
Not to be confused with glibc. Where the g does actually stand for gnu.
