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It's a mistake to ignore the customer

It's a mistake to ignore the customer

Posted Dec 13, 2012 1:19 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: It's a mistake to ignore the customer by HelloWorld
Parent article: GNU Guile 2.0.7 released

Right, but it's closer to the question: Given:

> (+) a b

and

> a `add` b

as the "only" options, which would be more popular?


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It's a mistake to ignore the customer

Posted Dec 13, 2012 1:29 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

I'd go for option (c) Find the person who is requiring me to use this language clearly designed by either a parodist or a malicious idiot, and require them to explain to me in less than 150 syllables why I have to put up with it.

It's a mistake to ignore the customer

Posted Dec 13, 2012 1:36 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Ah, yes. I forgot that option :) . That's how I feel with the class/method names people tend to use in Java… Biggest thing it's missing is a "typedef" equivalent, IMO.

It's a mistake to ignore the customer

Posted Dec 13, 2012 21:17 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

Urgh. U+0060 should never be used. It should really have been a combining character, but ASCII doesn’t really have them. See also: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html

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