New slides about Go

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bruno Medeiros" <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote in message 
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> On 11/11/2010 12:10, Justin Johansson wrote:
>> On 11/11/10 22:56, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> On 16/10/2010 00:15, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>> On 10/15/10 17:34 CDT, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/15/10 16:25 CDT, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>>>> I just hope they get serious enough about functional programming to
>>>>>>> gain
>>>>>>> some monads to go along with their "goroutines".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They should call them "gonads".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrei
>>>>>
>>>>> Wait, that was your actual joke. Sighhhh...
>>>>
>>>> I see we should invite JokeExplainer to the forums!
>>>
>>> I didn't get it... :/
>>> (Nick's joke that is)
>>>
>>
>> Hi Bruno,
>>
>> It is an English language word play on sound-alike words.
>>
>> Google on: "define: gonads"
>>
>> I think Nick was suggesting that someone/something gets some "balls"
>> though "ovaries" might not be out of the question also. :-)
>>
>> Trusting this explains well in your native language.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Justin
>
> So Nick already had "gonads" in mind on that post, is that the case?
>

My intended joke:

Google Go has "coroutines" that it calls "goroutines" ( Because "go" + 
"coroutines" == "goroutines"). So I applied the same cutesy naming to 
"monads": "go" + "monads" == "gonads". And like Justin said, "gonads" also 
means "testicles" (and sometimes "ovaries"), so it's a pun and a rather odd 
name for a programming language feature.

And somewhat ironically, it *would* take some serious gonads to name a 
language feature "gonads". (In English, saying that something requires 
balls/gonads/nuts/etc is a common slang way of saying it requires courage.)