• jabjoe@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    As a general rule, don’t use a corporation’s language. Languages, and their reference implementation, should be truly independent.

    Edit: To be clear, programming language.

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        3 months ago

        Corporation? I’m not anti business, far from it. But I have an interest in economics as well as technology. We need effective markets. CUDA is an example of a market problem caused by a corporation’s own language. It has screwed up competition.

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          3 months ago

          I mean if anything, look at Velcro and how generalising a term makes it untrademarkeable. Overusing words can and will screw companies.

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            3 months ago

            He means programming language. Don’t use programming languages that are controlled by a single company. Not “don’t say CUDA when you mean any general purpose GPU programming language”.

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            The funny thing with that, I haven’t seen a term taken like that from a tech company though.

            Xerox is the only one I can think of that came close, Googling at this point…