Nimrod is being renamed to Nim

Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by codereflection on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:34PM (#8352132)

And yet loads of us use "git" without an issue.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by stronglikedan on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:36PM (#8352475)

Just guessing, but I would say that's because "git" is only derogatory in British English, and wasn't popular (if even existent) in American English until it's use as the name of a DVCS.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by Rayearth on Monday September 22, 2014 @07:04PM (#8353186)

I like to think, humorously, that the name of the DVCS came about from the BitKeeper mess that ultimately led to the creation of git:

* Andrew Tridgell is a git for reverse-engineering BitKeeper

* Larry McVoy is a git for throwing a tantrum and withdrawing free BitKeeper

* Linus is a git for blaming Trigdell as the cause of Larry's reaction

Personally I think they're all gits.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by orionblastar on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:59PM (#8352610)

I always thought that git was a form of got or get.

Get me the source code. I got the source code.

Git is almost like a slang word that means get or got.

Yeah in British English it means a stupid person, you useless git! Almost like Nimrod means stupid dimwitted person.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by JadeNB on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:13PM (#8352684)

> Git is almost like a slang word that means get or got.

Perhaps more dialect than slang?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_Along,_Little_Dogies

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by codereflection on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:08PM (#8352656)

That makes sense. However if you look at Linus' description of git, a "stupid content tracker", then the British English derogatory term makes sense.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by codereflection on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:07PM (#8352651)

I agree. While I'm training people on git at work (in Seattle), they often look up the term and point out the definition to me. I then direct them to Linus' intention, for it to be "a stupid content tracker".

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by dllthomas on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:02PM (#8352622)

"wasn't popular (if even existent) in American English until it's use as the name of a DVCS."

... and the quoting of Monty Python

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by technomancy on Monday September 22, 2014 @06:06PM (#8352929)

Linus could have named it basically anything. He didn't have much of an uphill battle to get people to pay attention to his project due to its attachment to an existing superstar codebase.

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