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--- Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> wrote: |
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> It's not |
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> clear that there |
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> is anything unprofessional about referring to a |
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> programming language by |
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> its name, even if that name is rather unfortunate |
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> (in my, admittedly |
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> rather prudish, opinion). |
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I consider the programming language name to be |
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unprofessional. Avoiding the vulgar doesn't make you a |
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prude. heh |
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>For people like me who are uncomfortable |
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> using the actual name, "brainf*ck" would be equally |
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> clear, and many people will use a similar version |
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>just out of |
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> politeness. |
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Acceptable. |
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> My understanding is that the amount of "brainf*ck" |
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> support that will be |
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> needed is likely to be pretty small. It's not |
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> exactly a language that |
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> everybody is running out to learn and deploy, after |
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> all. So, I rather |
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> doubt that one would hear "alot [sic]" about this |
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> package regardless of policy. |
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Sorry about the grammar. I've only gotten about 7 |
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hours sleep last couple days. "a lot" was just my |
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spin. :P |
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Regards, |
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kutsuya (aka bit`) |
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