Choosing a more optimal `String` type

Re:Choosing a more optimal `String` type by eynsham on Friday September 22, 2023 @07:53PM (#37619266)

‘More optimal' is oxymoronic; ‘better’ is just that.

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Re:Choosing a more optimal `String` type by kibwen on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:32PM (#37619517)

From 1983:

Although "optimum" is an absolute term, like "unique", it became common verbal practice to make it relative: "not quite optimum" or "less optimum" or "not very optimum". Mel called the maximum time-delay locations the "most pessimum".

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1....

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Re:Choosing a more optimal `String` type by eynsham on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:47PM (#37619624)

Even worse! ‘Optimum’ in English is a noun, not an adjective.

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Re:Choosing a more optimal `String` type by kibwen on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:54AM (#37620667)

From 1993:

Verbing weirds language.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

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Re:Choosing a more optimal `String` type by swader999 on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:05PM (#37619717)

I prefer "more betterer".

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Re:Choosing a more optimal `String` type by paulddraper on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:21AM (#37620555)

And the superlative, most betterest.

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