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by solidsnack9000 3389 days ago
Nothing about giving your work away for free or wanting to do good necessarily puts one above criticism for misuse (or useless invention) of terminology. It's not a marketing exercise, you are correct -- all the more reason to expect a narrow use of terminology.
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weberc2 3389 days ago
If you're going to be pedantic, you might at least be strictly correct. There is no existing term that would distinguish it from Go's prior state, so there is no misuse nor "useless invention". Even if there were and you were correct, this would still be pedantry at its finest.
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solidsnack9000 3388 days ago
> ...would still be pedantry at its finest.

Why would correct use of terminology be "pedantry at its finest"?

What people are concerned about is intellectual dishonesty. The presentation does not go to much effort to show, for example, why the term "mid-stack inlining" needs to be introduced for Go. Do other languages not have this kind of inlining? Does comparing and contrasting other implementations just not matter?

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weberc2 3388 days ago
> Why would correct use of terminology be "pedantry at its finest"?

Because you're debating terminology when the wrong term caused no one confusion, thereby detracting from the actual conversation.

> What people are concerned about is intellectual dishonesty.

There's no cause for this concern.

> The presentation does not go to much effort to show, for example, why the term "mid-stack inlining" needs to be introduced for Go.

Sure it does; see slides 3-6.

> Do other languages not have this kind of inlining? Does comparing and contrasting other implementations just not matter?

Perhaps the author omitted it from his deck because it's impractical to cover the whole breadth of inlining in a deck that's already 35 slides long. Perhaps he simply didn't think to include it. There are a lot of likely explanations for why this wasn't included besides nefarious motives. You sound paranoid.

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solidsnack9000 3388 days ago
> There's no cause for this concern.

Well, why do you think we are bringing it up, then? Due to some nefarious motive?

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enneff 3388 days ago
My take: it's because of an unnecessarily cynical worldview coupled with a misunderstanding about the intended audience of the presentation.
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