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I'm guessing you wouldn't name a computer company "Apple", a search engine "Google", or a shopping site "Amazon"? gcc isn't particularly intuitive anyways; you
by Brendinooo 10y ago
I'm guessing you wouldn't name a computer company "Apple", a search engine "Google", or a shopping site "Amazon"?
gcc isn't particularly intuitive anyways; you have to learn what the acronym is, then you have to learn what another acronym is, and then after you learn what a recursive acronym is, you realize you have to research further to understand what it means...
- na85 10y agoYou're mistaking the ease of comprehension with the ease of recall. Do you think I'll remember what Flat is in 8 months? Nope. You can bet the first time I learned about GCC I remembered what it stood for, though. Same goes for things like ALSA. That is a descriptive name that's easy to pronounce. Meanwhile I'm trying to remember the difference between Square, Stripe, and Box. One of them is a payment processor and which one is it again? The difference with Apple and Google is that they have massive advertising budgets to overcome that obstacle.