bfd_read and bfd_write

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On 10 Sep 2001, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> > If it didn't have a slightly wacky twist, it wouldn't be a good
> > name. :-)  I still don't get the original BFD one, though.
>
> Which original BFD one?

That BFD (also) alludes to something other than Binary File
Descriptor, because of this passage from bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo,
node History:
"The name came from a conversation David Wallace was having with
 Richard Stallman about the library: RMS said that it would be
 quite hard---David said ``BFD''.  Stallman was right, but the
 name stuck."
Me not native speaker.  Could it be as profane as "big f..ng deal"?

brgds, H-P