Whither Tango?

[Yigal Chripun]

On 20/02/2010 05:03, Justin Johansson wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "dave eveloper" <tango at land.net> wrote in message
>> news:hlm402$1mr0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Ezneh Wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, it is not better to find a compromise between these libraries ?
>>>> Why they have to be "two" libraries rather than one which was
>>>> designed by larsivi, Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu ?
>>> I haven't seen larsivi around lately. Is it possible that there's a
>>> communication problem? Perhaps a personality mismatch?
>>>
>>> Because of silly symbol names like 'retro' I think there's more
>>> reason for someone to not like Phobos. Bearophile also always reminds
>>> us that a proper closure inlining support would make collection
>>> algorithms as fast as the ugly string template hack Phobos. That way
>>> you wouldn't have hard coded parameter symbols like a and b.
>>>
>>
>> Dictionary.com Unabridged, Based on the Random House Dictionary:
>>
>> retro-
>>
>> a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin meaning “backward”
>> (retrogress); on this model, used in the formation of compound words
>> (retrorocket).
>>
>> So can we stop this "retro is a bad name" nonsense now?
>
> Sure, just include a copy of, or link to, an English dictionary
> alongside D documentation, together with appropriate annotations.
> That's tantamount to what you are saying. imho, use of "silly"
> words like this in the language are a retrograde step.
>
> Cheers
>
> Justin Johansson
>
>
>

Hum, didn't you mean a link to a *Latin* dictionary? ;)