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Speaking of type systems, I read glib as g-lib a few times and tried to understand how you were talking about the GNU lib in that sentence.
by kristopolous 3y ago
Speaking of type systems, I read glib as g-lib a few times and tried to understand how you were talking about the GNU lib in that sentence.
- zombot 3y agoWouldn't that have to be `glibc`?
- slondr 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLib?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLib?wprov=sfti1
- zombot 3y agoI see. Thanks for that link!
- wyldfire 3y agoIt is unfortunate that the two have such similar names because there's a lot of room for confusion. It doesn't help that they have somewhat adjacent functionality almost.
- userbinator 3y agoI did too. Humans use context to resolve ambiguities in language, and in this case the context was very much statistically favouring the library; if you're using it, glib is literally "someone else's type system".