Re: Bïrn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

[Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro]

Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> So we now have R which comes from S, and C which comes from
> B.  Anyone starting to miss the good old days when the name of a
> programming language actually stood for something?
>
It makes it very hard to google search for help in anything. For example,
if I want to know which perl [or python, or haskell, or intercal] function
displays the current working directory, I can google for 
" directory" or [if I know the C-equivalent] 
" getwd". But those idiotic names don't let me do it.

What about "whitespace"? It's a pity that the filename extension
is .ws instead of . .

Alberto Monteiro
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Re: Bïrn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

[Ronn!Blankenship]

At 10:01 PM Friday 9/22/2006, maru dubshinki wrote:

On 9/22/06, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.

The Wikipedia entry for R is under "GNU-S" :-)

Alberto Monteiro


I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here, but it's
actually at [[R (programming language)]]
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29), like it
should (since programming languages' whose name are ambiguous are
supposed to be disambiguated rather than be at [[R programming
language]], which could be misleading). Now, [[GNU S]] and [[GNU-S]]
do indeed redirect to the actual article, but that's not the same
thing as the article being at those names...

~maru



So we now have R which comes from S, and C which comes from 
B.  Anyone starting to miss the good old days when the name of a 
programming language actually stood for something?



-- Ronn!  :)



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