WTF are you on? "More fashionable"? How about "correct"?
I had heard people talking about the shit people put on blog comments, but finally I get part of the action too! Thank you, Anonymous! This implies that I must have some kind of readership of some sort... strange.
If you don't understand that comment at first, I didn't either. I searched my article for 'more fashionable' and found that I wrote "Factor's
curry is, by the more fashionable nomenclature of those at Lambda the Ultimate, partial application..." This is an example of what I would call interesting diction (or at least an attempt at that); I wasn't trying to say anything bad about LtU or misrepresent what currying 'technically' is.Anyway, Haskell Curry was just a guy. His last name doesn't have any inherent meaning. In fact, no word has any inherent meaning, but rather only the meaning given to it by the people who speak a language. Pick up some Wittgenstein, Anonymous!
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Hi,
From practical considerations, it's usually better to not overload a word with different meanings that exist in the same operational realm, unless your goal is ambiguity. Thus when people notice you're doing this, they assume you're either offensive or ignorant.
I wasn't the one who overloaded it. It was already in usage this way. I just described it, and refrained from criticizing alternative usages of a word simply because they are different than one particular usage. In human language there are many, many words with multiple meanings dependent on context.
I didn't imply you were at any fault - just tried to explain, what could had upset the comment's author. I find it logical enough - you're part of the game where the overload is used and apparently have no problem with that, so you're responsible.
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