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This is awesome. It almost paints a picture from PHP => Python => cpp & Java. Considering that would be considered a growth path of a developing programmer, I
by ChikkaChiChi 12y ago
This is awesome. It almost paints a picture from PHP => Python => cpp & Java.
Considering that would be considered a growth path of a developing programmer, I find that fascinating.
PS: Go will always have problems with stuff like this. They should have just named the language string or var or something equal toxic to machine collection.
- byuu 12y agoI'm not defending the name choice; but to be fair, nearly all of the major languages have put zero consideration into their name SEO: Java competes with coffee, Ruby with the gemstone, Python with the snake, C# with the musical note, and C ... C is just a damned letter :P
- ChikkaChiChi 12y agoMaybe this just means engineers shouldn't name things! :) Then again marketing people would have made choices like RadPython, RubyGrunge, and CFlowerPower...
- M2Ys4U 12y agoWell there are four hard problems in computer science: 1. Naming things 2. Cache coherence 3. Off-by-one errors.
- byuu 12y agoYep, I gave up on naming things. I tried to use really creative names as is common in the Linux world (Ristretto, Amarok, Brasero, Thunar, etc), but it drove me up the wall (I once named a project "xkas", ugh.) It's so hard to find a name that's easy to pronounce, sounds good on the tongue, and is not already used a million times. Nobody's ever going to find them through Google, but oh well. Nobody was going to use them anyway. May as well name them the way I like, right? ;)