ch-ch-changes

[Sandeep Kakarlapudi]

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Does it really matter if it's used everywhere and consistently
> throughout D?  It's like saying "char" is unintuitive.  Yeh, it is
> unintuitive, but once you know it's short for "character" it's easy to
> remember.  Surely a Chinese programmer once he learns toe is the last
> item will have no problem remembering what it means, given the
> relationship between head and toe on a person's body.
> 
> --bb

"toe" is flat out silly and such names that pollute everything. If one doesn't get the proper unambigious name for something atleast invent a new one, do not borrow it and flat out confuse a newbie coming to the language or make decisions like this that everyone is going to be stuck with! There are 10 toes for every head!

Other mistakes that still irritate quite a few:
C++ vector vs a mathematical vector
In real time computer graphics, using binormal inplace of the bitangent. Curves have a binormal and surfaces have bitangents! 
No matter how many times binormal is used it still is wrong and sounds counter intiutive! 

Perhaps Stackoverflow and reddit might give a representative feedback on what a large section of programmers think and whatever their preference might be it could be give some weight in case a new term is not being coined.