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I do wonder the longevity of alphabet-based naming... It _sort of_ reminds me of a time I spoke to a colleague and said I wanted to try a project (only a coupl

I do wonder the longevity of alphabet-based naming... It _sort of_ reminds me of a time I spoke to a colleague and said I wanted to try a project (only a couple of years ago) that required Red Hat Linux 5 and he said "oh sure, here's some CDs" and realised, "nope, not RHEL" (to which the response was.. "oh, here be dragons").. If you loop the alphabet and I reckon you'll inevitably get confusion. "Hey, Android Juniper has been released" - "Ah cool, I can upgrade from Ice-cream".. "oh no, wait, mine's 27 releases old!".. "No, sorry, it's actually 53 releases old"

flakeoil 3y ago
At least better than random naming.
diffeomorphism 3y ago
> If you loop the alphabet and I reckon you'll inevitably get confusion. These releases tend to be yearly or half-yearly at most (e.g. android or ubuntu). So a wrap around happens after 13 years at the earliest. Having a 13 year old completely un-upgraded phone (or AR brain worm or whatever we will have in 13 years) wrapping around seems quite unlikely to cause any surprise. If you have weekly releases or something, then I would see your point.
- mrmattyboy 3y ago
  Yep - I agree - I guess just more generally, for example chrome releases ;)