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I wonder if there's somewhere that people can propose a name for things and people can tell them why they might want to use something else - 'Pony' is fairly co

by jwmcq 4y ago

I wonder if there's somewhere that people can propose a name for things and people can tell them why they might want to use something else - 'Pony' is fairly common slang for 'crap' in London / Southern England.

cpeterso 4y ago
The language was developed by people in London. > The big reveal on why it’s called “Pony”? Back in the flight sim days, when I would make my friends groan by telling them yet again about all the things I was going to do when I wrote a programming language, one of the people I would tell was Nathan Mehl. And one time, when I gave him yet another laundry list, he said: “yeah, and I want a pony”. But perhaps they didn't want to admit "pony" is also a reference to the slang term.. https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pony/ https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...
twic 4y ago
I've lived in London and the south pretty much all my life, and i'm not sure i've ever heard it used to mean that. It's rhyming slang, right? Not sure how many cabbies are in the market for memory-safe systems programming languages really.
- jfk13 4y ago
  Also in/from the south (though outside London), and was not familiar with that usage at all. A search does turn up some confirmation, though (e.g. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/287275.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/287275.html).
quotha 4y ago
A pony is a small horse dude
- tmtvl 4y ago
  No, a small horse dude is a gnometaur. You're thinking about a sporty tiger mascot for a breakfast cereal.
Normille 4y ago
I'm not from London myself but I've never heard a Londoner [or southerner] use Pony in that sense. I've often heard it used for an amount of money. £20 I think. When I read your opening 'I wonder if there's somewhere that people can propose a name for things and people can tell them why they might want to use something else...' I thought you were going to go on to make a point about not using everyday words [or single letters] as the name for your new programming language, as they'll be unsearchable. And everyone will end up tagging -lang' onto the end of the name, to discriminate. EDIT: I was a fiver out. A 'pony' is apparently £25: https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money

by jwmcq 4y ago

cpeterso 4y ago

The language was developed by people in London. > The big reveal on why it’s called “Pony”? Back in the flight sim days, when I would make my friends groan by telling them yet again about all the things I was going to do when I wrote a programming language, one of the people I would tell was Nathan Mehl. And one time, when I gave him yet another laundry list, he said: “yeah, and I want a pony”. But perhaps they didn't want to admit "pony" is also a reference to the slang term.. https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pony/ https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...

twic 4y ago

I've lived in London and the south pretty much all my life, and i'm not sure i've ever heard it used to mean that. It's rhyming slang, right? Not sure how many cabbies are in the market for memory-safe systems programming languages really.

jfk13 4y ago
Also in/from the south (though outside London), and was not familiar with that usage at all. A search does turn up some confirmation, though (e.g. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/287275.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/287275.html).

quotha 4y ago

A pony is a small horse dude

tmtvl 4y ago
No, a small horse dude is a gnometaur. You're thinking about a sporty tiger mascot for a breakfast cereal.

Normille 4y ago

I'm not from London myself but I've never heard a Londoner [or southerner] use Pony in that sense. I've often heard it used for an amount of money. £20 I think. When I read your opening 'I wonder if there's somewhere that people can propose a name for things and people can tell them why they might want to use something else...' I thought you were going to go on to make a point about not using everyday words [or single letters] as the name for your new programming language, as they'll be unsearchable. And everyone will end up tagging -lang' onto the end of the name, to discriminate. EDIT: I was a fiver out. A 'pony' is apparently £25: https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money