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Also oddly redundant, most daemons end in a "d" to denote daemon, so that name is a bit like the toe-curling "RAID array".


That is just to highlight the redundancy!


This. If I saw a *d-daemon in the process list, I would feel I must research the origin of the name.


Reminds me of PAT Testing


This is called the "RAS Syndrome" (where "RAS" stands for "redundant acronym syndrome"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome


As the President of the AAPoOAA[0] I'd like to point out that this is the #1 article in our charter.

[0] American Association of over Abused Acronyms </joke>


also, "web blog"




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