Etymology of software project names [closed]
- by Benoit
I would like to have a reference community wiki here in order to know what etymology software name have or why they are named that way. I was wondering why Imagemagick's mogrify was named this way. Today I wondered the same for Apache Lucene. It would be handy to have a list here.
Could we extend such a list? Let me start and let you edit it please. I will ask for this to be community wiki. For each entry please link to an external reference.
GNU Emacs: stand for “Editor MACroS”.
Apache Lucene: Armenian name
Imagemagick mogrify: from “transmogrify”.
Thanks.