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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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Re: Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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Post by michaelcampbell »

lr0 wrote: post #58
michaelcampbell wrote: post #45

What is it with a number of blogs recently that have turned off normal right-click behavior, and probably related, the scroll behavior is awful. This is one, and as soon as I scroll on my work high powered Macbook and it's not smooth, I'm out.

[OP] Can you please doublecheck? Nothing should affect right-click behavior or scroll, if you're experiencing it, it's probably from your end.

You are correct, my apologies. It was at work where we have NannyWare of various sorts, so it might have been that. Working fine from home; thanks for confirming.

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Re: Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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Post by embedding-shape »

a96 wrote: post #434
embedding-shape wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using Linux for almost 20 years, including sed a lot of that time, I'm sure I've heard it before, I must have, but when parent wrote it I was like "aah, that makes sense".

Thirty years for me and several more since I learned what sed does and what it's called and never forgot.

I never forget what it does obviously, I use it at least weekly and most of the time daily. But if you asked me what "sed" stand for I'd probably not recall. I might have attempted to work in "extended" somewhere in a guess, because of ex the editor, but besides that :/

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

I believe the phrase I'm looking for is hallelujah!

The naming culture is beyond salvation. It crossed the line when things went from 'We invented this word to name our thing.' to 'We fused the concept of breakfast muffins in cat pictures meme to the previous application of the open source tool to name our abstract thing more accurately. That's why it's called 7Mermaids.'

I remember when Yahoo had to spend a fortune on commercials asking "Do you Yahoo?!" It seems that old business lesson was completely forgotten.

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Post by cafard »

> Early programming languages followed similar logic: FORTRAN (Formula Translation), COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), SQL (Structured Query Language), I believe Lisp stands for list processing. The pattern was clear: names conveyed purpose or origin.

Yes and no. The Navy has or had a lot of code in JOVIAL, Jules's Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language. SNOBOL goes a long way back.

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Post by jghn »

shaftway wrote: post #163
moregrist wrote: post #147

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> > No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable. The author is just wrong. Chemistry is fairly jam-packed with various cutesy names either to amuse the authors or because they’re attempting to make an algorithm memorable to the field. Off the top of my head: - SHAKE and RATTLE: Bond constraint algorithms. - CHARMm: An MD pack…

> > > No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable. Lawrencium has entered the chat.

Biology, not chemistry but there's also the Sonic Hedgehog pathway [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_signaling_pathway

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