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Re: OT naming customs

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Monday, December 17, 2001, 0:06
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> . . . ordinarily you wouldn't "repeat" part of a name so soon > generationally, it's disrespectful . . .
Jews are traditionally named for a dead relative. I have a mental image of a particularly fussy Jewish parent going through the family trees to identify the most recently-deceased ancestor whose name has not already been given to a descendant. ...
> Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a > violent psychopath who knows where you live.--Martin Goldin
Charming. That's a paraphrase of something I often quote, though I don't know the source: "Write your constitution as if your worst enemy is in power." -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/

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