[Rd] Ice cream flavor metaphor in statistical computing

[Jeffrey Horner]

Forgive me, but since it's Friday and I've been thinking about command 
line options lately, I thought I'd find out who came up with the name of 
the --vanilla argument for R. From the svn log:

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r2509 | maechler | 1998-10-10 10:52:53 -0500 (Sat, 10 Oct 1998) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
    M /trunk/src/unix/system.c

new --vanilla

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Are there any interesting anecdotes about this... Did Martin Maechler 
name it? Certainly --plain could have been used instead...

Jeff
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