mccMay 18, 2025

Me: It's confusing to talk about programming sometimes because that "type" is a vocabulary word with special meaning but it's also a general word in English. I know, if I ever need to express a general category of things, I'll use the unambiguous word "kind".

Haskell: *About to play a hilarious prank on me*

Show threadaevaMay 18, 2025
@mcc imo computer scientists are nowhere near willing enough to make up new words
Show threadCarl Muckenhoupt
@aeva @mcc This is possibly the difference between a "computer scientist" and a "programmer". Programmers are all too willing to give every project its own terminology for the same old concepts
May 18, 2025 at 8:45pmWeb
Show threadaevaMay 18, 2025
@CarlMuckenhoupt @mcc oooooooo elitism
Show threadCarl MuckenhouptMay 18, 2025
@aeva @mcc FWIW I'm a programmer
Show threadaevaMay 18, 2025
@CarlMuckenhoupt @mcc hard to find a computer scientist who isn't 😏