[Development] repository for the toolwrapper

André Pönitz andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Nov 28 21:50:45 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:35:40AM -0800, Romain Pokrzywka wrote:
> It would have been a good idea to ask a native English speaker before deciding
> on the name, as this is an atrocity, language-wise.

Is it?

But even if so, most of the target audience are not native speakers
of English either...

> I'm not a native myself but I can tell this sounds wrong. 'Chose' is
> definitely not the right verb here, you probably wanted 'select' instead?
> 
> On top of that, IMO the *er suffix sounds really odd for a command tool.
> Have you ever heard of commands named 'lister', 'deleter', or 'grepper' ?

For 'ls /usr/bin/*er | wc -l' I get a result of 128. At least half of
the hits seem to be of a genuine 'do-er' kind. 

Andre'



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