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Sincere question: Does C# offend you?

• Y_Y 9y ago
  Not GP, but I initially though Q# was some sort of CLI (another great name there) version of Q, in the same sense that C# (like C++) signifies some sort of augmented version of C.
• geocar 9y ago
  > Sincere question: Does C# offend you? No. C# has some relationship with C and C++ and it's clear that Microsoft wants us to think about the C-ness of C# when we see the "C" in C#; C's implied trademark is being respected here. Now my turn for a sincere question: If someone gets the name "curl" and everyone in a market understands that name means something, and someone comes around and uses the name for something else[1], why do you think that's okay? [1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20160819042745/https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901 http://web.archive.org/web/20160819042745/https://github.com... (archive.org link since github is taking a long time to load)
  • jetti 9y ago
    >If someone gets the name "curl" and everyone in a market understands that name means something, and someone comes around and uses the name for something else[1], why do you think that's okay? I never said it was ok. I actually didn't know about this until this thread and didn't know the details until I read the link you posted. I think that is shady and wrong. On top of that, curl is so popular that it is hard to believe those who implemented that command in Powershell did not know about that already. That said, when it comes to a language it is entirely possible for people to not know that a language Q already exists. Also, it is going to be hard to confuse the two languages when searching for resources, since majority of people looking for Q# resources are going to actually be typing in "Q#" and not "Q". On top of that, Q being the first letter in quantum and it being a language designed for quantum computing makes sense. Plus they add their signature # at the end which they seem to like to do for new languages (J#, C#, F#). Unlike curl, I see very little malice in the naming of the Q# language EDIT: I have another sincere question for you: What are your thoughts on the J[0] and J#[1] programming language names? Microsoft created J# as a bridge between Java and Visual J++ to transition to .NET. This was in 2002, 12 years after the J programming language first appeared. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp
    • geocar 9y ago
      > when it comes to a language it is entirely possible for people to not know that a language Q already exists. I don't buy it. https://www.bing.com/search?q=q+programming+language https://www.bing.com/search?q=q+programming+language > it is going to be hard to confuse the two languages when searching for resources, since majority of people looking for Q# resources are going to actually be typing in "Q#" and not "Q". Again, I don't buy it. https://www.bing.com/search?q=q%23+programming+language https://www.bing.com/search?q=q%23+programming+language Try harder. > they add their signature # at the end which they seem to like to do for new languages (J#, C#, F#). which follow Java, C, and System F.
    • MadcapJake 9y ago
      Don't search engines ignore `#` anyways? Searching `q#` vs `q` seems to bring up the same results for me.