Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 5 authors, 2021-02-24

Re: Ort-merge: What does "ort" mean?

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From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-24 23:24:08

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:23 PM Elijah Newren [off-list ref] wrote:
It actually has meaning beyond being a joke, though:

 * Note: git's parser allows the space between '-s' and its argument to be
 * missing.  (Should I have backronymed "ham", "alsa", "kip", "nap, "alvo",
 * "cale", "peedy", or "ins" instead of "ort"?)
 */

However, I learned my lesson -- Eric is way better at coming up with
names than me[1] so if I need more names in the future, I'll ping him.
:-)
"Extended LInear Jump AHead" is still my favorite because it sounds
cool. However, I wouldn't sneeze at "UNiversally Systematic Heuristic
Iterative Newtonian Elliptic", which is probably a more apt
description of what you implemented, but I digress.
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