Nope. I was just sloppy, and replied before checking what else was in my 
inbox.

	Johnny

Charlie ROOT wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
>>der Mouse wrote:
>>
>>>In Norwegian, it has a meaning which I cannot think of a precise
>>>English translation for.  ("Elf" and "pixie" are close but not really
>>>precise enough.  Or, it's possible - not unlikely, actually - that my
>>>weak understanding of its meaning is the actual problem.)  Since
>>>port-vax came from Sweden, and Swedish is very close to Norwegian, it
>>>seems possible that this is the origin of its use in the bootloader.
>>
>>Ah. Good point. I forgot about that one in my previous letter. A "nisse" can
>>be a sort of friendly gnome as well (I think that is a better translation).
>>Not sure if that was the intention, but it's good anyway. "nisse" sometimes
>>have a tendency among swedish programmers to be used as a random junk name.
>>Like "foo", "bar", "foobar", "gazonk", "quux", and all other of the kind...
>>
>>I guess Ragge will have to tell what the thought was in this case.
> 
> 
> It sounds like you somehow missed the message with id:
>     <200603082041.VAA09267@father.ludd.luth.se>
> from ragge, which I received before yours, and which mentions
> some of the exact same words (foo and bar).  Perhaps it went into
> a "spam" folder or something?
> 
> -aw
> 

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