From: Christian Boos <cboos@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T21:00:25+09:00
Subject: RE: R (was: adding overload to ruby)

(sorry, I was too quick on my keyboard)

> Well, I just want to apologize to Pixel, the Merd
> author, who is indeed french and certainly knew what
> he did :)
>
> Anyway, here is the explanation I found on the web page:
>
MERD:
"Merd is Extremly Redundant and Dumb or Merd Eliminates Redundancy and
Dumbness"

and also, about the name (in the FAQ):
"See the Thanks page. At least I can put the blame on the name if merd fails
to take over the world... "

-- CB