From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1RMKxUY023180 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:20:59 GMT Received: from web50410.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.245]) by smtp.gentoo.org with smtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D5WmV-0001uO-Vw for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:20:57 +0000 Received: (qmail 29250 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Feb 2005 22:20:57 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=DxnDsQQV1PUFRhFL6cMi5E9Dsy4J0BaLyltzbtbvXSEhDjZPuCJXpyjjOK0f2pSR5ELJQzpEpk9oYekQY28GX5zuwHjiLSniJfsmyxf1rHzY7QFTsDWfiZGdRwIpTibcHtnBPFDV/SNJcVcMGkF3kW3hChTthlueNo0zBa06tI4= ; Message-ID: <20050227222057.29247.qmail@web50410.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.1.44.54] by web50410.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:20:56 PST Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:20:56 -0800 (PST) From: Jason S Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude? To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050227215917.GB17631@dst.grantgoodyear.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: bbf7867a-f48d-4e40-bd57-5aa23390687d X-Archives-Hash: 0d3098d5d389a4b316fb672639ac684c --- Grant Goodyear wrote: > It's not > clear that there > is anything unprofessional about referring to a > programming language by > its name, even if that name is rather unfortunate > (in my, admittedly > rather prudish, opinion). I consider the programming language name to be unprofessional. Avoiding the vulgar doesn't make you a prude. heh >For people like me who are uncomfortable > using the actual name, "brainf*ck" would be equally > clear, and many people will use a similar version >just out of > politeness. Acceptable. > My understanding is that the amount of "brainf*ck" > support that will be > needed is likely to be pretty small. It's not > exactly a language that > everybody is running out to learn and deploy, after > all. So, I rather > doubt that one would hear "alot [sic]" about this > package regardless of policy. Sorry about the grammar. I've only gotten about 7 hours sleep last couple days. "a lot" was just my spin. :P Regards, kutsuya (aka bit`) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list