[OT] pippo (was Re: hg: lambda/lambda/langtools: Improved support for diagnostic during lambda conversion.)

[Osvaldo Doederlein]

2010/6/22 Jesse Kuhnert <jkuhnert at gmail.com>

> Don't stop there, I want to hear ~all~ variations. =) (seriously)
>

If that's what you mean, FWIW, Goofy is "Pateta" in pt_BR. Pluto is the
same. But I've never seen these used in source code, not even in the
goofiest code :) likely to avoid the cost of paying royalties to Disney.  Or
we just don't have this habit of using cartoon names, at least not as a
widespread, standard thing. When I find "funny" code it will have
identifiers named after totally random sources of inspiration: profanity,
soccer teams, music lyrics, punchlines from TV humor programs... whatever
suits the author. There is no standard idiom like the American foo/bar that
serves so well the need of 1-2 unimportant identifiers... this is a problem
that could be seriously slowing Brazil's progress in IT. Some people adopt
foo/bar but this is cultural imperialism... must email our standards
institute ABNT, and perhaps our Academy of Letters, to create a native
foo/bar equivalent...

A+
Osvaldo


>
> On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Michael Gaber <mic.gaber at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 22.06.2010 20:50, Rémi Forax wrote:
> >> Le 22/06/2010 20:38, maurizio cimadamore a écrit :
> >>> On 22/06/2010 19:28, maurizio cimadamore wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 22/06/2010 18:55, Alessio Stalla wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:22 PM,<maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
>  wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> target method pippo
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Heh - that reveals something about your origins ;)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Indeed it does [I knew you would have noticed :-) ]
> >>>>
> >>>> Maurizio
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> For non-italian readers - following an (ehm) ancient tradiation,
> italian
> >>> programmers use to name things after walt disney cartoon character. Put
> >>> in other words, Goofy ('pippo' in Italian) and Pluto are our Foo and
> Bar
> >>> :-)
> >>>
> >>> Maurizio
> >>>
> >>
> >> In France, we use 'toto' and its variations 'titi' and 'tutu'.
> >>
> >> Rémi
> >>
> >
> > And in Germany bla, blubb and blubber are common besides foo et al
> >
> >>>>> Sorry for the OT ;)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Peace,
> >>>>> Alessio
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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