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@ben0x539 that's a good reason that Unix nerds like me find compelling, but I think @nikomatsakis is pointing to the poetic win of trochaic PORT and CHANnel vs. the awkwardly inverted foot in CHANnel and PORT.
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nikomatsakis commentedon Oct 2, 2012
+1. Somehow "port and channel" sounds right, "channel and port" sounds
backwards.
ben0x539 commentedon Oct 4, 2012
The
pipe
syscall gives you the read end of the pipe first and the write end second, maybe that's why?BrendanEich commentedon Oct 4, 2012
@ben0x539 that's a good reason that Unix nerds like me find compelling, but I think @nikomatsakis is pointing to the poetic win of trochaic PORT and CHANnel vs. the awkwardly inverted foot in CHANnel and PORT.
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catamorphism commentedon Dec 12, 2012
Done pending review (not that anything needs reviewing, but I wanted to make sure there was really consensus).
catamorphism commentedon Dec 12, 2012
Done: 38bd694