Re: [OT] Re: Why I am switching to Go
On Friday, 23 September 2016 at 01:52:51 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: They've now renamed Syphilis, et al. after Subaru's highest-end Impreza? *shakes head*. Who wants to bet *that* little bit of PC rubble-bouncing was spearheaded by someone with a vested interest in the Viper or Corvette or something? Fine, ok, so who wants to put together the PR to update Phobos's package name accordingly? Any takers? I wonder will programmers be called `digitally oriented persons` one day? And `laptop` sounds too patriarchic for my liking. Let's rename it. How about `mobtop` (mobile desktop)?
Re: [OT] Re: Why I am switching to Go
On 09/22/2016 11:41 AM, Chris wrote:
Around every two years they come up with something new, give or take a
year depending on the topic. In general, I got the impression that once
I've finally got used to using a certain term, it's no longer
(politically or otherwise) correct, e.g. "STD" => "STI" ("disease" is
obviously a bad bad word - unless you want to sell useless drugs for
made-up diseases). It happens all the time.
They've now renamed Syphilis, et al. after Subaru's highest-end Impreza?
*shakes head*. Who wants to bet *that* little bit of PC rubble-bouncing
was spearheaded by someone with a vested interest in the Viper or
Corvette or something?
Fine, ok, so who wants to put together the PR to update Phobos's package
name accordingly? Any takers?
Re: [OT] Re: Why I am switching to Go
On Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 15:22:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On 09/22/2016 07:43 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 9/20/16 3:14 PM, Intersteller wrote:
TL;DR: I like and have used Go extensively. I glanced at D for
20
minutes and didn't like it.
Grumpy old curmudgeon says: "Harumpf...Why back in my day, we
pronounced 'TL;DR' as 'summary'...or 'abstract' if we wanted to
be really really fancy" ;)
Never much understood "bouncing rubble" English changes like
that, or "internet"->"cloud", "preteen"->"tween", etc. Can't
tell if the trend is accelerating or it's just me getting old.
Around every two years they come up with something new, give or
take a year depending on the topic. In general, I got the
impression that once I've finally got used to using a certain
term, it's no longer (politically or otherwise) correct, e.g.
"STD" => "STI" ("disease" is obviously a bad bad word - unless
you want to sell useless drugs for made-up diseases). It happens
all the time.
