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From: roadraat AT aol DOT com (Nelson Fleet)
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Subject: What's SYMIFY?
Date: 21 Feb 2002 11:32:10 -0800
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I'm learning how to use SYMIFY...

but where does the term itself come from?

Is it an acronym?  Does it mean "to create 'symes'", whatever that
might be?

There are lots of terms like that in C programming; ones for which I
wish I knew the derivation.

Nelson