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+History
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+The origins of libHX trace back, even crossing a language boundary, to when the
+author started on using Perl in 1999. Some tasks were just too damn useful to
+be open-coded every time. Two such examples are what is these days known as
+``HX_basename`` and ``HX_mkdir``. The name does not relate to anyone's
+initials; it is a result of a truncation of the author's nick used years ago.
+
+Around the beginning of 2003, the author also started on the C programming
+language and soon the small library was converted from Perl to C. The libHX
+library as of today is the result of working with C ever since, and naturally
+grew from there to support whatever the author was in need of.
+
+The “correct” name for libHX is with an uppercase “H” and uppercase “X”, and
+the same is used for filenames, such as “libHX.so”[#lowercase]
+
+.. [#lowercase] Software projects may choose to entirely lowercase the project
+                name for use in filenames, such as the Linux kernel which is
+                released as ``linux-${version}.tar.bz2``, or the project may
+                choose to keep the name for filenames, like Mesa and SDL do.
+                libHX is of the latter.