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I see what you did there...

sjcsjc 8y ago
For those who don't, it's a clever reference to Jonathan Swift's satirical essay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
- pvg 8y ago
  What's the clever bit?
  - asimpletune 8y ago
    Johnathan Swift wrote a famous essay called a modest proposal, that basically suggests we should eat children, if I recall correctly. So the clever bit is to connect the language, and this proposal, in a lateral way, by alluding to J. Swift’s original essay.
    - pvg 8y ago
      In what way is that clever? This thing isn't satire, the allusion, such as it is, might not even be intentional. Nobody thinks putting 'considered harmful' in a title is clever and those things are usually about something the author considers harmful, like the original.
      - JoblessWonder 8y ago
        I'll take another stab at explaining this to you but I'm worried you might just be trolling. The phrase "A Modest Proposal" is generally associated with the essay's author, Jonathan Swift. By combining that phrase in a literal sense ("I'm suggesting something new about how to handle option methods") with the name of a programming language which coincidentally is the surname of the author, it leads to a clever connection. It would be like an article called, "Do not cast your Perls before swine" about dynamic casting which also is a play on the common phrase, "Do not cast your pearls before swine." [Yeah, that example kind of sucks but it was the first thing that popped into my head.]
        pvg 8y ago
        You need not be worried about that, I'm not trolling. I am definitely being churlish. Yes it's associated with Johnathan Swift but nothing in the association is in the slightest similar to the style of Swift's essay. The names match? So what. It's still completely pedestrian. From the wikipedia page - "In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.". That's just not the case here. You're right, it would be like that hypothetical article if you both made up a clever title involving perl and casting and the modest proposal thing was particularly clever. But it's not, so that hypothetical rather begs the question.

For those who don't, it's a clever reference to Jonathan Swift's satirical essay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

pvg 8y ago
What's the clever bit?
- asimpletune 8y ago
  Johnathan Swift wrote a famous essay called a modest proposal, that basically suggests we should eat children, if I recall correctly. So the clever bit is to connect the language, and this proposal, in a lateral way, by alluding to J. Swift’s original essay.
  - pvg 8y ago
    In what way is that clever? This thing isn't satire, the allusion, such as it is, might not even be intentional. Nobody thinks putting 'considered harmful' in a title is clever and those things are usually about something the author considers harmful, like the original.
    - JoblessWonder 8y ago
      I'll take another stab at explaining this to you but I'm worried you might just be trolling. The phrase "A Modest Proposal" is generally associated with the essay's author, Jonathan Swift. By combining that phrase in a literal sense ("I'm suggesting something new about how to handle option methods") with the name of a programming language which coincidentally is the surname of the author, it leads to a clever connection. It would be like an article called, "Do not cast your Perls before swine" about dynamic casting which also is a play on the common phrase, "Do not cast your pearls before swine." [Yeah, that example kind of sucks but it was the first thing that popped into my head.]
      - pvg 8y ago
        You need not be worried about that, I'm not trolling. I am definitely being churlish. Yes it's associated with Johnathan Swift but nothing in the association is in the slightest similar to the style of Swift's essay. The names match? So what. It's still completely pedestrian. From the wikipedia page - "In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.". That's just not the case here. You're right, it would be like that hypothetical article if you both made up a clever title involving perl and casting and the modest proposal thing was particularly clever. But it's not, so that hypothetical rather begs the question.