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You've evaded the GP's comment, which is about the name "Arc"'s rather obvious existing binding. Why? I'm curious to hear by what process you've decided to igno
by gruseom 13y ago
You've evaded the GP's comment, which is about the name "Arc"'s rather obvious existing binding. Why? I'm curious to hear by what process you've decided to ignore that.
- mjn 13y agoAt this point the name is so overloaded, I suppose we could criticize most post-'80s things named "Arc" on that grounds. I haven't heard pg/rtm defend why the Arc programming language chose to clobber the existing extension .arc, which is widely used by the ARC archive format. Or the binary 'arc', which has been used for ~30 years as the name for the command-line interface to the industry-standard ArcGIS. There's also a programming language in ArcGIS named the Arc Macro Language.
- gruseom 13y agoThose are good points. I suppose the counterargument is that it depends on how much the contexts intersect. It seems to me that in this case the contexts intersect rather a lot. But if I'm wrong, and overloaded project names don't matter, so much the better.
- reddit_clone 13y agoNot to forget Noah's floating palace! Edit: just realized that was Ark with a K. My bad.