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> Emacs got rewritten separately for the Lisp machine as EINE (EINE Is Not EMACS), parallel with Multics Emacs also written in Lisp, and an improved EINE later became ZWEI (ZWEI Was EINE Initially).

These recursive acronyms are causing a stack overflow in my brain.

Very well played.




The clever part isn't just the recursion. These translate (almost) as "one" and "two" in German.


Indeed. Erbsenzähler comment: "eine" is the singular "a" for a feminine object, "zwei" is actually just "two". "Ein" is "one".


I'm not German, but if I recall correctly: - "Eins" is for the actual number "one" - "Ein" is "a" for masculine/neuter genders - "Ein" is also used for expressing the amount, e.g. "ein Auto, zwei Autos"

That said, high school was a long time ago, so I might be way off :)


You're right! Oops.




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