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Congratulations Daniel! Lord knows how many developer hours you've saved the world. This part caught me - is it pronounced "see URL"? This whole time I and eve
by waterside81 9y ago
Congratulations Daniel! Lord knows how many developer hours you've saved the world.
This part caught me - is it pronounced "see URL"? This whole time I and everyone I know have pronounced it as "curl" as in "curling".
- shmerl 9y agoCurl is easier to say than c-url :)
- hnarn 9y agoJust like when it comes to GIF, there's the "correct" pronunciation, and then there's the one that makes sense.
- capisce 9y agoAnd Qt is officially pronounced "cute".
- rob74 9y agoI think that's just the explanation of the name, not necessarily a rule how to pronounce it. As for pronounciation, let's compare: "see-you-are-el" vs. "curl". I think I'll stick with "curl" ;)
- DonbunEf7 9y agoIndeed, I learned in school that it was short for "cat URL", since it functions like the standard `cat` command but takes a URL instead of a file or pipe. Just goes to show that we are very good at coming up with incorrect justifications for things.
- smnscu 9y agoThis reminds me of the time I wanted to build a URL shortener that handles lists and even hierarchies, and I bought the domain urls.cat (URLs `cat`). I realised then how close it was to "URL scat", so it's probably a good thing I abandoned the idea.