Comment by cjfd 15 days ago The short summary of it being that these people are beyond terrible at giving names to things. 5 comments cjfd Reply RobotToaster 15 days ago Programmers and engineers should never be allowed to name things.I say that as a programmer and engineer. chuckadams 15 days ago "We suck at naming things" -- Bjarne Stroustrup, in a talk about SFINAE PunchyHamster 14 days ago On one side I agree. On other side I look how marketing people name things and I think we're still better offImagine if next edition of GCC, released in 2026 was named 2027. Then it was GCC One. Then GCC 720. Then GCC XE. Then just plain GCC. Then GCC Teams mikestew 14 days ago And then finally…GNU 720 AssistantDriver.(Tip of the hat to Microsoft’s marketing teams.) kelvinjps10 15 days ago The python community has the habit of giving short names for things
RobotToaster 15 days ago Programmers and engineers should never be allowed to name things.I say that as a programmer and engineer. chuckadams 15 days ago "We suck at naming things" -- Bjarne Stroustrup, in a talk about SFINAE PunchyHamster 14 days ago On one side I agree. On other side I look how marketing people name things and I think we're still better offImagine if next edition of GCC, released in 2026 was named 2027. Then it was GCC One. Then GCC 720. Then GCC XE. Then just plain GCC. Then GCC Teams mikestew 14 days ago And then finally…GNU 720 AssistantDriver.(Tip of the hat to Microsoft’s marketing teams.)
PunchyHamster 14 days ago On one side I agree. On other side I look how marketing people name things and I think we're still better offImagine if next edition of GCC, released in 2026 was named 2027. Then it was GCC One. Then GCC 720. Then GCC XE. Then just plain GCC. Then GCC Teams mikestew 14 days ago And then finally…GNU 720 AssistantDriver.(Tip of the hat to Microsoft’s marketing teams.)
mikestew 14 days ago And then finally…GNU 720 AssistantDriver.(Tip of the hat to Microsoft’s marketing teams.)
Programmers and engineers should never be allowed to name things.
I say that as a programmer and engineer.
"We suck at naming things" -- Bjarne Stroustrup, in a talk about SFINAE
On one side I agree. On other side I look how marketing people name things and I think we're still better off
Imagine if next edition of GCC, released in 2026 was named 2027. Then it was GCC One. Then GCC 720. Then GCC XE. Then just plain GCC. Then GCC Teams
And then finally…GNU 720 AssistantDriver.
(Tip of the hat to Microsoft’s marketing teams.)
The python community has the habit of giving short names for things