Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!entropy From: entropy@pawl.rpi.edu (Born of the Cuisenaire Rods) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Why is it called a 'cookie'? Message-ID: <1989Oct2.010310.20790@rpi.edu> Date: 2 Oct 89 01:03:10 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: Eaters of Wisdom Lines: 14 In the documentation for PCC, Steve Johnson writes: "_Codgen takes ... a second argument that, for socio-historical reasons is called a _cookie_. The cookie describes a set of goals that would be acceptable for the code generation." Why 'cookie'? Reply by Email, of course. -- What a wonderful thing is the human brain; how I wish I possessed one. Mark-Jason Dominus entropy@pawl.rpi.EDU entropy@rpitsmts (BITnet)