Comments on: Synonyms Need Love Too http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/12/synonyms-need-love-too/ … and there is much to be learned Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:46:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: truth machine http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/12/synonyms-need-love-too/comment-page-1/#comment-25260 truth machine Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:03:36 +0000 http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/?p=188#comment-25260 <p>Reducing the number of methods in Array would mean reducing the number of things I can do to x = [], which would be stupid. Array isn't a container class, it provides a user-facing facility in a scripting language. Martin Fowler picked a terrible example and made a ridiculous comparison.</p> Reducing the number of methods in Array would mean reducing the number of things I can do to x = [], which would be stupid. Array isn’t a container class, it provides a user-facing facility in a scripting language. Martin Fowler picked a terrible example and made a ridiculous comparison.

]]> By: Akshay http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/12/synonyms-need-love-too/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Akshay Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:26:20 +0000 http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/?p=188#comment-531 +1 This is by far the best comment, aside from that of Martin himself, that I have read in this debate! It just makes sense to treat computer programming languages as a languages that we humans speak between ourselves. That would be natural selection, working to to make things a lot more 'usable', as compared to making things more mathematically correct. +1

This is by far the best comment, aside from that of Martin himself, that I have read in this debate!

It just makes sense to treat computer programming languages as a languages that we humans speak between ourselves. That would be natural selection, working to to make things a lot more ‘usable’, as compared to making things more mathematically correct.

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