On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:10 AM, William Tanksley, Jr <wtanksle...@gmail.com> wrote: > My reaction is negative -- it looks like a ***REALLY*** superlatively > goofy name intended as a technical pun, replacing a reasonably serious > one (although I'm even happier with just plain "bats"). I don't recall > any discussion, but that's probably just my terrible memory, or maybe > I was busy when it happened.
Assuming that you're referring to "megabat" as goofy, please confer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat>, though perhaps that's what you mean by technical pun. The "goofy" seems to be a cultural thing, because "mega" as a suffix doesn't seem all that "goofy" to me as an Australian. Perhaps I've just not been exposed to it as much as anyone else. > I didn't ever bring it up because I didn't want to raise a furor over > something so small. It's pretty much "painting the bikeshed" (a > programming idiom) for me personally... But since someone's asking, > there's my answer. There's honestly nothing you can say on the matter that I haven't heard at least ten or twenty times on IRC, most of which seemed to be aimed specifically at myself. Perhaps I take too much to heart. Most of my negativity towards this change stems from having put up with all of these comments for quite some time, which now seems to have been for nought, rather than rationale for or against it. -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
