Stupid little iota of an idea

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:06:06 -0500, Ary Manzana <ary at esperanto.org.ar>  
wrote:

> On 2/11/11 12:15 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrej Mitrovic"<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>  wrote in message
>> news:mailman.1476.1297391467.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>> What the hell does "to!" have to do with anything. Disregard my last
>>> post, it's obviously 3 AM and I'm talking gibberish.
>>>
>>
>> I just meant that "iota" looks a lot like (spaces added for clarity)  
>> "i   to
>> a". In other words, the first time I ever saw "iota", I confused it for  
>> the
>> old C function that converts an integer to an ASCII string. It may very  
>> well
>> have been 3am for me at the time ;)
>
> You are the second one who confuses iota with itoa. Actually, the third,  
> I confused it too.

Me 2.

> According to the book "The Design of Everyday Things" the design of that  
> function name is wrong, it's not your fault and it's not because it was  
> 3am. When many people make mistakes with regards to the design of  
> something it's *always* the design's fault, never the human's fault.

I love that book, I wish more software engineers used it.  One of my  
favorite classes at college.

-Steve