Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System Written in Rust

Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W... by notmars on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:38PM (#25247426)

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

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Re:Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System W... by dan-robertson on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:42PM (#25249586)

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?)

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