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

[Paul Benedict]

I believe we need a wiki page on OpenJDK to retain posterity of this
important matter :-)

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Osvaldo Doederlein <opinali at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/6/22 Jesse Kuhnert <jkuhnert at gmail.com>
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>> Don't stop there, I want to hear ~all~ variations. =) (seriously)
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> 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
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>
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>> 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:
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>> >>>> On 22/06/2010 18:55, Alessio Stalla wrote:
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>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:22 PM,<maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
>>  wrote:
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>> >>>>>> target method pippo
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>> >>>>> Heh - that reveals something about your origins ;)
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>> >>>> Indeed it does [I knew you would have noticed :-) ]
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Maurizio
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>> >>> 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
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>> > And in Germany bla, blubb and blubber are common besides foo et al
>> >
>> >>>>> Sorry for the OT ;)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Peace,
>> >>>>> Alessio
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