Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W...
by notmars on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:27PM
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Shall we talk about the name?
Or does nobody care about the impact of subconscious bias in adoption of dev tools and ai should shut up ? :-)
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Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W...
by kroltan on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:29PM
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What about it? Searching for "pijul -vcs" shows images of birds, which is reasonable?
Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W...
by notmars on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:38PM
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1- I’m not sure how to pronounce it (maybe it s just me), ‘j’ has a lot of depth consonent-wise (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant)
2- what’s the story behind it (strong believer in the importance of symbols and what they attach to)
3- what is it supposed to make
me think of? A pidgeon? So it’s everywhere and defecate randomly on people?
I must also postface: I understand it’s a spanish word meant to evoke a bird (what for?) and maybe I’m the only one that believes that simple evocative name change anything, but hey, here you are in that thread :-p
Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W...
by dan-robertson on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:42PM
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For 1, the name of the bird is Spanish so you could pronounce the j as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
Alternatively you could just read it without that knowledge and pronounce it however you like.
As far as I’m aware it follows a theme of other bird names for other parts of the project.
It seems fine compared to eg mercurial (if you spend a lot of time with it you go mad?) or git (the word you mutter under your breath as you use it?)
Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W...
by dxdm on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:15PM
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Even if we disregard the riddle of its meaning, I have no idea how to pronounce the name.
Pee? Pye? Then, a "jay" sound, or a Spanish "junta", or a French "Jules"? And then how is the "u" pronounced?
I'm confused. Pidgel?
Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W...
by gnusty_gnurc on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:36PM
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Yea I was searching to see if anyone else would mention this, especially seeing the uproar about GIMP, etc. I don’t care about the naming dispute stuff, but this is comically close to pee-hole.