Lua gets this, as well, except in Lua's case, it never even had an acronym associated with it.
People who type LUA insta-brand themselves as outsiders.
My preferred definition of LUA is "Lua Uppercase Accident." ;-)
that's recursive. :)
Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition
by peter-fogg on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:40PM
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I find that I dismiss pretty nearly anyone who refers to a programming language in all caps. Outside of FORTRAN, COBOL, and C.*, it just looks ridiculous -- SCHEME, ERLANG, LISP, JAVA...
Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition
by JulianMorrison on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:05PM
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Rule: you're allowed to use all caps to name any language that originally had to be programmed on terminals without lowercase letters.
So LISP? :)
Also add a special case "SmallTalk" for instant dismissal. It's Smalltalk.
Heh, of _all_ languages – you'd have thought Perl would end up with CamelCase. "PeRl" – nah…
Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition
by VintageCool on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:53AM
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PHP?
Maybe they're just yelling the name of the language.
Curiously, anyone who's been involved in the Perl community for any length of time will see "PERL" there and dismiss the poster out-of-hand. The decade-or-two old catchphrase goes something like:
"Perl" is the name of the language. "perl" is the implementation/interpreter. There's no such thing as "PERL".