[Fictionary] salep winner
Pierre Abbat
phma at phma.optus.nu
Fri Sep 19 10:18:00 EDT 2008
> Sometimes you play to win, sometimes you just run out of time and play to
> be weird. This is a lame joke that would be understood only by someone
> familiar with an obscure (and largely obsolete) computer language.
I don't think people write AI programs (where you're likely to find the "-p"
convention) in AutoLisp, but Lisp is still used for programming AutoCAD.
I have seen this word long ago, as I remembered when I saw the etymology. It's
from Arabic "khasyu ath-tha`lab", which means "the fox's testicles". "Orchid"
also means testicle, as does "avocado", which is quite unrelated.
Pierre
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