elm pine pico nano
- elm the email client: abbreviation for electronic mail
- pine the email client: acronym for Pine Is No-longer Elm, and also the name of a tree
- pico the text editor: acronym for pine composer
- nano the text editor: nano- is the SI prefix which is 1000 times the size of pico-
xml ajax comet
- xml: extensible markup languages
- ajax the js/http pattern: acronym for asynchronous javascript and xml
- comet the predecessor js/java/http pattern: also a household cleaner (like ajax)
multics unix gnu:
- multics: acronym for multiplexed information and computer services
- unix: originally unics, acronym for uniplexed information and computing service, after multics
- gnu: acronym for gnu’s not unix
vi vim neovim
- vi: short for “visual”
- vim: “vi improved”
- neovim: a new vim
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