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Re:Samurai: Ninja-compatible build tool written in C by riffraff on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:47AM (#32459203)
I feel the name should have been "Shinobi" for maximum pun-ity
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Re:Samurai: Ninja-compatible build tool written in C by dragontamer on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:46PM (#32460700)
Depends.

The improvement upon the program 'more' was named 'less'. It seems to be a tradition to choose opposites rather than similar words.

Samurai were warrior-governors of Japan, much like Knights. Their opposite and enemy were ninjas/Shinobi, the spies and assassin's of Japan.

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Re:Samurai: Ninja-compatible build tool written in C by fomine3 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @08:16PM (#32464438)
make/kati is another example, Meaning lose/win in Japanese.
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