Re: [Haskell-cafe] Buddha and GHC 6.4

2005-06-20 Thread Gour
Bernard Pope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Plargleflarp is a decoy. I started getting complaints about the name when the program was noticed by someone on a linux mailing list. The complaints have come from buddhists who don't like the use of the word. This is really a nonsense. The word has lot

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Buddha and GHC 6.4

2005-06-20 Thread Ketil Malde
Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is really a nonsense. The word has lot of meanings. Let them take a look in any Sanskrit dictionary. Hmm.. I must have displaced mine, but are you suggesting Enlightenment (the window manager) could be next? So what will happen in the long term? As yet I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Buddha and GHC 6.4

2005-06-20 Thread Bernard Pope
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:03 +0200, Gour wrote: Bernard Pope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To stop the complaints I renamed every occurrence of buddha to plargleflarp on the webpage. This term is not the best one :-) No, but it made for some amusing emails. To make people happy, why not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Buddha and GHC 6.4

2005-06-20 Thread Bernard Pope
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 18:32 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: More suggestions: buggha -- after all, it's a debugger Sounds like a word Australians use frequently, probably when they find a bug in their program. Beelzebuddha -- by mixing in another deity, the hope is that the followers of each