Comment at top of code from pre-github:

/*
 * Generate Nirva-style names
 * nate@root.org v1.1 9/28/99
 *
 * aaronmb@mit.edu v2.0 4/12/2000
 * - Trimmed suffixes, added prefixes, split vowels into long and short,
 *   added biases for long vowels and against repeats, code generated
 *   "ishiboo" randomly.
 */