[Gambas-user] About gambas, the word

[Fabien Bodard]

2017-07-13 20:44 GMT+02:00 Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>:
> Many open source projects have animal name or logo. So I guess it's just
> old tradition.

In fact the tradition for geek programmers in the unix world was to
find a recurssive acronym.

It means the Name is an acronym that contain the name itself

WINE  = Wine Is Not Emulator

GAMBAS = Gambas Almost Mean BASic

So the logo of something looking a bit to a shrimp was a logical
choice... Well normally shrimps have not claws... but i find it give
an idea of super powerfull shrimp ;-)

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> Jussi
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> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Jorge Carrión <shordi at ...626...> wrote:
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>> It's a joke, I think. Searching for something that contains BAS, from
>> Basic. Why an animal I don't know. Benoit likes to eat prawns, I
>> soppouse...
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>> 😁😁😁
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> 2017-07-13 8:37 GMT+02:00 Fernando Cabral <fernandojosecabral at ...626...>:
>>
>> > *Warning: this is only a linguistic curiosity with no relation to Gambas,
>> > the language.*
>> >
>> > Entirely by chance, I came across the following definition and etymology
>> > for gambas, the word:
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>> > *From Petit Robert 2007: gambasgambas [gɑ̃bas] nom féminin plurielétym.
>> > répandu v. 1960; catalan gamba, du latin populaire cambarus, classique
>> > cammarus, du grec kammarosv■ Grosses crevettes comestibles de la
>> > Méditerranée. Gambas frites (è scampi), grillées. Brochette de gambas.▫
>> > Rare Une gamba [gɑ̃ba].*
>> > In Brazil, I never heard the word gamba. I never found it in written
>> text.
>> > Nevertheless, at least one Brazilian dictionary registers it as a Spanish
>> > word only recently introduced into Portuguese. So, perhaps it is used in
>> > Portugal.
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>> > Anyway, it is interesting to know that, in the end, it comes from Greek
>> > "kammaros" that gave us the Portuguese "camarão" and the Italian
>> > "gamberetto". Nevertheless, at the first sight, it is hard to see that
>> > "gamba" and "camarão" come from the same Greek word.
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