Vadim Vygonets writes:
> > hey, does anyone remember "Bsisit" for the PC from about 10 years ago?
> > an attempt for a fully hebrew GW basic...
>
> Wrong translation. "BASIC" is an acronym, though I don't
> remember what it stands for.
Not quite correct. BASIC is a "backronym", or an ancronym that was
constructed out of a ready word (i.e. meanings found for each letter
in it.) See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/backronym.html ,
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BASIC.html .
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