Has anyone gotten Buddha (now called "plargleflarp" http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~bjpop/buddha/) do work with GHC 6.4? I'm getting ghc-6.4: unknown package: buddha Jim P.S. What happened to the old name?
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 12:16 -0400, Jim Apple wrote:
Has anyone gotten Buddha (now called "plargleflarp" http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~bjpop/buddha/) do work with GHC 6.4? I'm getting
ghc-6.4: unknown package: buddha
Jim P.S. What happened to the old name?
Hi Jim, Unfortunately I haven't had time to get buddha working with GHC 6.4. If you really need it I can have a look into it later this week (let me know how urgent it is). Otherwise it is best to stick with the previous stable release of GHC for the moment. Plargleflarp is a decoy. I started getting complaints about the name when the program was noticed by someone on a linux mailing list. The complaints have come from buddhists who don't like the use of the word. To stop the complaints I renamed every occurrence of buddha to plargleflarp on the webpage. So what will happen in the long term? As yet I don't know. I might rename the program when version 2.0 comes out, I might not. If you have any opinion then please let me know. Cheers, Bernie.
Bernard Pope (bjpop@cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
Plargleflarp is a decoy. I started getting complaints about the name when the program was noticed by someone on a linux mailing list. The complaints have come from buddhists who don't like the use of the word.
This is really a nonsense. The word has lot of meanings. Let them take a look in any Sanskrit dictionary.
To stop the complaints I renamed every occurrence of buddha to plargleflarp on the webpage.
This term is not the best one :-)
So what will happen in the long term? As yet I don't know. I might rename the program when version 2.0 comes out, I might not. If you have any opinion then please let me know.
To make people happy, why not use the name 'buddha' instead of 'Buddha' ? Then they cannot complain any longer ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD
Gour
This is really a nonsense. The word has lot of meanings. Let them take a look in any Sanskrit dictionary.
Hmm.. I must have displaced mine, but are you suggesting Enlightenment (the window manager) could be next?
So what will happen in the long term? As yet I don't know. I might rename the program when version 2.0 comes out, I might not. If you have any opinion then please let me know.
I can't help but think about Apple's 'Sagan', which according to rumour, Carl refused the name, and in respect the device was internally named BHA instead. One should be careful what one wishes for. :-)
To make people happy, why not use the name 'buddha' instead of 'Buddha' ?
More suggestions: buggha -- after all, it's a debugger deBuddha -- similar, but emphasizing the non-relationship to the big B. buddhy -- a friendly name, not likely to offend even the most sensitive among the enlightened. Beelzebuddha -- by mixing in another deity, the hope is that the followers of each can argue with each other, rather than developers. (Was there any prize?) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
Ketil Malde (ketil+haskell@ii.uib.no) wrote:
Hmm.. I must have displaced mine, but are you suggesting Enlightenment (the window manager) could be next?
No, Intelligence or Sage is enough ;)
(Was there any prize?)
Sure it is: Fame :-) Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 18:32 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:
More suggestions:
buggha -- after all, it's a debugger
Sounds like a word Australians use frequently, probably when they find a bug in their program.
Beelzebuddha -- by mixing in another deity, the hope is that the followers of each can argue with each other, rather than developers.
This one I like. I'm wondering what the mascot would look like... Cheers, Bernie.
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:03 +0200, Gour wrote:
Bernard Pope (bjpop@cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
To stop the complaints I renamed every occurrence of buddha to plargleflarp on the webpage.
This term is not the best one :-)
No, but it made for some amusing emails.
To make people happy, why not use the name 'buddha' instead of 'Buddha' ?
Then they cannot complain any longer ;)
I already did that. I've also had some positive responses from other people who say they are buddhist. I think the complainers are definitely in the minority. To be honest I didn't think anyone would notice my little joke about plargleflarp. Anyway, now a new word is added to google's memory. Cheers, Bernie.
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