• @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    151 day ago

    PHP naming “::” a Paamayim Nekudotayim is also pretty infamous.

    When I’m designing shit, I’m pretty zealous about borrowing terminology from anything even vaguely related to avoid this.

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        57 minutes ago

        Absolutely cursed, lol.

        So not only did they decide to randomly include Hebrew in their language, because I guess they were feeling kabbalistic, but they got the Hebrew wrong. In what way does any of that increase usability or even make them look competent?

        It reminds me of the INTERCAL manual, which was a joke:

        This precedence (or lack thereof) may be overruled by grouping expressions between pairs of sparks (’) or rabbit-ears (").