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| author | dimitri <dimitri@afe2bf4a-e733-0410-8a33-86f594647bc7> | 2001-07-15 17:11:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | dimitri <dimitri@afe2bf4a-e733-0410-8a33-86f594647bc7> | 2001-07-15 17:11:26 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/doc/faq.doc b/doc/faq.doc index f20dfc0..4fb9a63 100644 --- a/doc/faq.doc +++ b/doc/faq.doc @@ -197,6 +197,22 @@ converted it into an empty file (with >16K of newlines). Another case where this might happen is if you have lines in your code with more than 16K characters. +<li><b>How did doxygen get it's name?</b> + +Doxygen got its name from playing with the words +documentation and generator. + +\verbatim +documentation -> docs -> dox +generator -> gen +\endverbatim + +At the time I was looking into lex and yacc, where a lot of things start with +"yy", so the "y" slipped in and made things pronouncable. + +I realized later that doxygen could also be read as Dimitri's oxygen, +which could be seen as something I need to live :-) + </ol> \htmlonly |