| From: | Jan de Visser <jan(at)de-visser(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>, John McKown <john(dot)archie(dot)mckown(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: $foo $bar is BAD |
| Date: | 2016-04-16 00:30:18 |
| Message-ID: | 2051528.XhJx27HHnp@coyote |
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On Friday, April 15, 2016 8:13:56 PM EDT Melvin Davidson wrote:
> *Thanks for the sympathetic feedback John. I understand people are
> reluctant to change. It was just my intent to enlighten others as to the
> true background behind it.*
> *So if it's not about to change, then I'll just have to cry $boo $hoo, $oye
> $vey. :)*
Reading this:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/80609
it appears to me that the true origin is not what you claim it to be, but pre-
war MIT pranksters.
And besides: language evolves. Words change meaning over time. Nobody typing
'foo = 2*bar' thinks about WW2 acronym, and everybody reading it immediately
understands it, again without referring to that acronym.
The horse is dead, Jim. Stop beating it.
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