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   Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:52:08 JST Shriram Krishnamurthi

   Today in programming language design issues…

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     The ol' tealeg (tealeg@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:52:07 JST The ol' tealeg

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     @shriramk I appreciate that mode of thought. Once, many years ago (the 90s), I wrote a little pre-processor so I didn't have to type "color" and "center" in HTML files when they clearly should be "colour" and "centre".

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     The ol' tealeg (tealeg@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:52:08 JST The ol' tealeg

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     @shriramk one could prefix the the colour with a "c", making "ctan" - that definitely wouldn't create any namespace clashes in the domain of computing commonly used in academia...

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     Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:52:08 JST Shriram Krishnamurthi

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     @tealeg Given that Pyret's primary audience is people learning to program, we should actually default the other way around: colors are more familiar to them than trig.

     We could also stick an extra `u` in the middle in the High British fashion, e.g., make one of them "taun", and hope we have no Scots users (though it would be on point given the language's naming tradition).

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