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why is it called nix? unix without u
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"Nix" doesn't resemble "nichts", it's slang for the same thing in German so it has the same meaning.
I don't know which language is the source but if someone can access the nix paper to confirm that'd be great.
Footnote in the paper on page 3: The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input.