Whither Tango?

[Justin Johansson]

Yigal Chripun wrote:
> 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? ;)

You are quite correct to pull me up on that one.  I guess to
be more specific I should have said a post-classical Latin
dictionary in which occurrence of said "retro" is more common.

btw. (and you gotta blow your trumpet sometimes) I won
First Prize for Latin at secondary college :-)