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I am a fan of Qt and the more i learn about it, the more i love it. I don't know why it is named Qt. I searched it but all of the results where irrelevant. Most were acronyms like "Quality Time" and some were "cutie" or "quiet".
I thought may be it is a funny acronym like "GNU" which is GNU's not UNIX. Either way it is such a cool and cute name. Anybody know about it?
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On the q.t. means doing something secretly. The q.t. in the phrase on the q.t. is an abbreviation of the word quiet. The term originated in the mid-1800s. There is some debate on whether the phrase on the q.t. is of American or English origin.
Secretly, as in They told her on the Q.T. that she was being promoted. This slangy term, in which Q.T. is an abbreviation for “quiet,” was first recorded in 1884.
"Cutie" is the most common definition for QT on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. QT. Definition: Cutie.
Quote from the first edition of C++ gui programming with Qt 4:
The letter ‘Q’ was chosen as the class prefix because the letter looked beautiful in Haavard’s Emacs font. The ‘t’ was added to stand for “toolkit”, inspired by Xt, the X Toolkit.
*Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng began the development of Qt
The same piece of history is on wikipedia
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