Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Traffic down? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:55:16 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5634 On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:56:46 -0400, Jeff Higgins wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I'm recently back to clj*. >I took several months break from it. >The traffic seems down. >Is this a summertime lull? Questions seems to be getting plenty of responses, however there are fewer questions. One factor would be when schools get a summer recess. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the great annoyances in programming derives from the irregularity of English spelling especially when you have international teams. I want to find a method or variable, but I don't know precisely how its is spelled or worded. English is only approximately phonetic. Letters are randomly doubled. The dictionary often lists variant spellings. British, Canadian and American spellings differ.I would like to see an experiment where variable names were spelled in a simplified English, where there were no double letters.I also think you could add a number of rules about composing variable names so that a variable name for something would be highly predictable. You would also need automated enforcement of the rules as well as possible.