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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by evincarofautumn on Friday March 27, 2015 @04:30PM (#9278790)
“Unf” is quite widely used as a spelling of a moan, to express sexual desire or gratification. While it can be used to express non-sexual enjoyment, the sexual connotation it evokes is just unnecessary when it comes to a programming language, regardless of the original intent.
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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by a_c_s on Friday March 27, 2015 @04:40PM (#9278847)
While I've never seen this use personally, UrbanDictionary very strongly corroborates this.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unf

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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by evincarofautumn on Friday March 27, 2015 @04:41PM (#9278859)
It’s worth noting that “universal noise of fucking” is a backronym—the word was originally onomatopoeic.
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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday March 27, 2015 @07:16PM (#9279673)
It is, still, but urbandictionary users like making inaccurate definitions as an attempt at "humour"
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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by david-given on Friday March 27, 2015 @06:05PM (#9279339)
As an counter datapoint, this is the first time I have ever heard of this.
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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday March 27, 2015 @07:17PM (#9279676)
Perhaps as "umph" or "umf"? No?
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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by david-given on Friday March 27, 2015 @08:02PM (#9279836)
No, not even slightly.

FWIW, I grew up in Scotland, then moved to England, so I'm probably from a rather different cultural background than the poster.

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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by iagooar on Saturday March 28, 2015 @06:11AM (#9280957)
As a non-native speaker, I have seen "umph" before.
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