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by dnautics 1878 days ago
I have sympathy for gp. But also, naming things is hard. Wait till you dig deeper into the erlang rabbit hole and discover the undocumented gen module.
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hazn 1878 days ago
And in recent computer science (~30 years) we often pick unintuitive names for things.

Examples: WebAssembly(neither web, nor assembly), Serverless (has a server, actually), JavaScript.

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