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Among other things because he is also was part of the old Solaris team?

• exabrial 8y ago
  Hilarious example of why English is a terrible language: I meant for the the pronoun to refer to Joyent, not [necessarily] the CTO.
  • twtw 8y ago
    Operator errors do not indicate the quality of a language.
    • ranko 8y ago
      Though they are interesting in the context of a discussion of the relative safety of kernels written in C and Rust.
    • 4ad 8y ago
      Funny, when it comes to programming languages like C, operator errors are very much blamed on the quality of the language.
  • ryan93 8y ago
    use "which hired"
    • exabrial 8y ago
      *whom
  • magduf 8y ago
    No, that's an example of someone not knowing the language very well. You should have written something like, "which is the company that...". I can't think offhand of any language that's really better here in a sense of being more efficient, except probably Classical Latin which is horribly complicated and of course a dead language.
    • TomMarius 8y ago
      Czech allows you to specify that with a change of one letter depending on who you mean (the CTO - který, the company - která) - this depends on different genders of the two words, but is commonly used.
      • mitchtbaum 8y ago
        Yea, but the desirable language feature is a differentiation of Joyent and its CTO, based on Joyent being an adjective and CTO a noun, not on noun gender. (Did I set up the problem correctly?)
        • TomMarius 8y ago
          Yeah I understand, just wanted to point out that some languages have a hack for that. I can't really imagine how would your ideal solution work/look like.
      • setr 8y ago
        I think using `which` instead of `who` would have been sufficient in this case; but this is a non-general fix for similar reasons
      • magduf 8y ago
        Are they officially calling themselves "Czechia" these days? I saw that on Google Maps recently, I think. It certainly is shorter and simpler than "Czech Republic".
        • TomMarius 8y ago
          It's the oficial short name (the full name is still Czech Republic), local people don't like it much but they're coming around. However I wasn't referring to the country (Czechia/Czech Republic) but to the language (Czech).
    • eatbitseveryday 8y ago
      >> Presentation by the Joyent CTO btw, who hired a lot of the old Sun Solaris team. > No, that's an example of someone not knowing the language very well. I disagree. The sentence is clear and unambiguous as written. The subject of the first part of the sentence is the CTO himself. If the continuation of the sentence is intended to switch subjects, then it must be written so. For example, '... by the Joyent CTO, whose company ...', or '... by Joyent, who/which ...' thus 'who' refers to 'CTO'.
  • exabrial 8y ago
    RUSTful English officially needs to be thing