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

[Brian Goetz]

Sure, but this is a matter of importance that goes far beyond OpenJDK -- go for wikipedia! 

Start here:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo



On Jun 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Paul Benedict wrote:

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