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This type of data structure is sometimes called a "rope". (get it?)

pjscott 16y ago
The list of textile-related terms which correspond to data structures includes string, rope, cord, yarn, weave, weft, thread, and even quipu. It's getting kind of ridiculous.
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago
  Are you telling me that thread now means something in addition to an execution context?
- kragen 16y ago
  To be fair, a quipu has been a data structure, or rather a data storage medium, for at least 1200 years, and possibly several thousand years: http://www.charlesmann.org/articles/Science-khipu-decipher-08-05.pdf http://www.charlesmann.org/articles/Science-khipu-decipher-0...
- tomjen3 16y ago
  You forgot warp. Am on it is not ridiculous, because the first thing in the world you could program was a loom. We are all an of-shot of the textile industry.
- andolanra 16y ago
  I looked all of these up; in doing so, the only quipu I could find is on what I believe to be your own GitHub page. Are quipus (or, to use the Quechua plural, quipukuna) something you devised, or are you borrowing the name from elsewhere?
  - pjscott 16y ago
    That would be my own contribution to the ridiculousness. See, I'm working on operational transformation based on this paper: http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/articles/ctre.pdf http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/articles/ctre.pdf ...and the author names every data type after something stringy. I wanted to continue the theme, but it took some serious Wikipedia digging before I could find something that was textile-related and not already taken. In retrospect, this was a bad choice, since I kept forgetting how to spell it. :-(
    - andolanra 16y ago
      Most varieties of Quechua wouldn't spell it 'quipu' any more; that's the influence of Spanish orthography, where 'qu' meant 'k' and 'hu' meant 'w'. Most modern orthographies would spell it 'khipu', which might be easier to remember. And for your future endeavors: twine, thrum, strand, and lisle are, as far as I know, unused.
- viraptor 16y ago
  Lolcode uses YARN. Then again, it's almost the same as BUKKIT OF NUMBAR... No wonder other languages don't use silly names.

The list of textile-related terms which correspond to data structures includes string, rope, cord, yarn, weave, weft, thread, and even quipu. It's getting kind of ridiculous.

koenigdavidmj 16y ago
Are you telling me that thread now means something in addition to an execution context?
kragen 16y ago
To be fair, a quipu has been a data structure, or rather a data storage medium, for at least 1200 years, and possibly several thousand years: http://www.charlesmann.org/articles/Science-khipu-decipher-08-05.pdf http://www.charlesmann.org/articles/Science-khipu-decipher-0...
tomjen3 16y ago
You forgot warp. Am on it is not ridiculous, because the first thing in the world you could program was a loom. We are all an of-shot of the textile industry.
andolanra 16y ago
I looked all of these up; in doing so, the only quipu I could find is on what I believe to be your own GitHub page. Are quipus (or, to use the Quechua plural, quipukuna) something you devised, or are you borrowing the name from elsewhere?
- pjscott 16y ago
  That would be my own contribution to the ridiculousness. See, I'm working on operational transformation based on this paper: http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/articles/ctre.pdf http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/articles/ctre.pdf ...and the author names every data type after something stringy. I wanted to continue the theme, but it took some serious Wikipedia digging before I could find something that was textile-related and not already taken. In retrospect, this was a bad choice, since I kept forgetting how to spell it. :-(
  - andolanra 16y ago
    Most varieties of Quechua wouldn't spell it 'quipu' any more; that's the influence of Spanish orthography, where 'qu' meant 'k' and 'hu' meant 'w'. Most modern orthographies would spell it 'khipu', which might be easier to remember. And for your future endeavors: twine, thrum, strand, and lisle are, as far as I know, unused.
viraptor 16y ago
Lolcode uses YARN. Then again, it's almost the same as BUKKIT OF NUMBAR... No wonder other languages don't use silly names.