GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

Tue Mar 3 04:05:12 PST 2015

On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 09:03 +0000, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-
> > d-announce wrote:
> > > 
> > […]
> > > Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I
> > > suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.
> > 
> > It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the
> > change,
> > but I am not sure it was worth it.
> 
> The rationale was that Nimrod has a fairly negative meaning
> attached to it in American(?) English. I'm not sure if it exists in 
> other English dialects.

Apparently pig, pork, and sausage are now banned words as well.

Ho hum…

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