Apparently there's a guy from Perl fame named "brian d foy" who insists you spell his name exactly like that, all lowercase, even at the start of a sentence. He's got a lengthy style guide, even.
I don't have enough hours in the day to process the amount of ego one fucking requires to make a STYLE GUIDE ABOUT THEIR NAME.
God's sake he gets insistent about not using a dot after the d insisting it stands for nothing
This guy is clearly doing this for attention
@Elizafox the d stands for his dick
@Elizafox Love Symbol
@Elizafox it's probably a regular expression or something...
my take was that he was trying to be funny about it
but I suppose it's arguable
(seemed like a nice enough bloke the one time I met him and all, tho)
(and Perl is my primary fluent programming language, I actually did a small amount of training others in it and such -- but I still rarely refer to him, there's a lot of Perl folks)
@sydneyfalk That style guide didn't look very humourous to me
@sydneyfalk I invoke Poe's Law on this one.
maybe something changed, couldn't tell you
but then again
Perl humor is something I barely understood myself -- the language works in my head, but -- people are people :\ I never really get them, even if they seem like "nice blokes" or "nice lasses" or "nice friendlies" or "nice something elses"
@sydneyfalk yeah they have.... a very bizarre sense of humour. And that's coming from me.
Most functional programmers do too.
@Elizafox So, I can get the style guide being a bit obnoxious, but how is this different from, say, bell hooks?
@literorrery That's annoying too.
I don't have enough space in my head to deal with this.
It's like E. E. Cummings.
Seems to me that Brian D. Foy needs to learn that standards exist for a reason, and if he wants to violate those standards, then Brian D. Foy needs to learn how to make his own language rather than adhering to the standards of another one ;-)
@munin I'll make my own language! With blackjack and hookers!
In fact, those will be the only two words.
> standards exist for a reason
counterpoint one: e. e. cummings
counterpoint two: https://www.xkcd.com/927/
not saying you're wrong exactly, but I mean
'arbitrary' is a pretty arbitrary concept and all ^_^
@munin @sydneyfalk SYNTAX ERROR ON LINE 32: lvalue "8" is invalid
SYNTAX ERROR ON LINE 32: rvalue "D" is invalid
e e cummings knew the rules and knew how they could be transgressed and trulytrippedandranacross the english language with a runningwonderful use of language and
Brian D. Foy is no e e cummings ;-)
@Elizafox are we, uh, really doing a thing where we make fun of what people want their names to be?
because that seems kind of fucked up for around these parts.
@brennen I don't have enough spoons to worry about how to spell someone's name.
Convention is convention. This isn't the same as a pronoun dispute. Spelling rules don't even matter in the spoken word anyway.
@Elizafox let me introduce you to Paul
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-May/014882.html
@Elizafox There was also e e cummings, perhaps that was where bdf got his inspiration from.
LUCKILY,
I don't use Perl and have zero reason to ever say his name.
Also he has a bizarre interview with himself.