[Gambas-user] About gambas, the word

[PICCORO McKAY Lenz]

all of this conversation give so much hungry:

a coup of WINE, with some friet GAMBAS!

Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com

2017-07-13 16:28 GMT-04:00 Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr at ...626...>:

> 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 ;-)
>
> >
> > Jussi
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Jorge Carrión <shordi at ...626...>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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...
> >>
> >> 😁😁😁
> >>
> >> 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:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > *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.
> >> >
> >> > 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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