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In real life language etymology, people joke (with some degree of seriousness) that if there is an explanation for a particular term or phrase, that is logical,
by wikwocket 13y ago
In real life language etymology, people joke (with some degree of seriousness) that if there is an explanation for a particular term or phrase, that is logical, reasonable, and has some historical corroboration, it is almost certainly wrong.
The evolution of language is a strange and unexpected process. I think this clearly applies to programming languages too. Surely more so for some languages than for others... but this seems to definitely be the case for web languages, since the ecosystem they evolve in is so chaotic.
- doorhammer 13y agoIt's funny. I half jokingly apply that maxim to a lot business decisions I see. Someone will say "oh it makes sense that apartment a does this, because x y z" and I respond with "they may be doing something right, but theyre almost certainly not doing it hat way because it's right" But yeah. It pays not assume the obvious answer is the right one