Stupid little iota of an idea

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Ary Manzana 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.
> 
> 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.
> 

Thanks for this, I'm adding this book to my read list. :)