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#32The free software movement really needs to step up its name-game. No normal people want to use a program called The GIMP .
The iPad was mocked for sounding like a feminine hygeine product, yet it seems to have done alright for itself.
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#36 parrot
(common virtual machine for dynamic languages) named
after an April Fool's hoax that came true:
What a coincident. In 2015, Perl 6 (Parrot VM) and Python 3 have difficulties to transfer their community over from the former major releases Perl 5 and Python 2.
Offtopic: We can learn from it. Like fixing a language early or never/only in small steps. Other examples: XHTML 1 and especially 2 failed, HTML5 based on HTML4 won spectacular. PHP6 failed, but won with PHP 5.3+ and now PHP 7. The transition from Visual Basic 6 and VBA 6 to Visual Basic .Net failed, J#/C# won.
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#38We all know "GNU's Not Unix." But what does G stand for?
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#39We all know "GNU's Not Unix." But what does G stand for?
GNU, of course.