From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-29 13:52:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:35:45 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9f1173$q21$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <9ekrc2$hk0$1@news.fsu.edu> <9eln0p$24p$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B136EB5.AB530C15@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 991168547 26689 136.170.200.133 (29 May 2001 20:35:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 May 2001 20:35:47 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10163 comp.lang.ada:7854 comp.lang.awk:2634 comp.lang.clarion:20578 comp.lang.java.programmer:71768 comp.lang.pl1:678 comp.lang.vrml:3375 Date: 2001-05-29T20:35:47+00:00 List-Id: Welcome to the Tower of Babel. It shall always be thus. Better to find ways of easing the pain than to try to eliminate the problem because I suspect it is something intractable in human nature. Will the entire world ever learn to speak English? If they do under force or persuasion, how long before the English everyone speaks start to diverge into regional dialects? Its been said the England and the United States are two countries separated by a common language. :-) Its as good an example as any of why project vocabulary is going to both become specialized and diverge within pockets of the project. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Roedy Green" wrote in message news:utt7hto6rm0o9a8qked9muns28n7lrnvi6@4ax.com... > What causes me more trouble than anything else coming > late onto a project is: > > 1. learning that some words have a specific project meaning. > > 2. discovering that this vocabulary evolved over time, and that there > are variants. The project vocabulary is inconsistently used. > > A lint tool might get people thinking more about this project > vocabulary and using it consistently right from the get go. >