err... just from reading the title, I assumed it was a play on cobol being disadvantaged, but being old would also imply being disadvantaged physically. metaphorically speaking it makes perfect sense on first read... You seem to be using eval() on human language
If one spent enough time, they could even find "Ruby on Rails" offensive, in some misconstrued way as the word "rails" can be derived as conformist and against free thinking as one is confined to "rails." I don't think it's any of that, but just alluding that spend enough time dissecting anything and someone is bound to find issue with it.
I think the overall gist is that we developers are not always marketing people, so we spend more time on making whatever it is and less on the name. Naming things is a hassle, especially when you have no intention on making it a marketable product.
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err... just from reading the title, I assumed it was a play on cobol being disadvantaged, but being old would also imply being disadvantaged physically. metaphorically speaking it makes perfect sense on first read... You seem to be using eval() on human language
If one spent enough time, they could even find "Ruby on Rails" offensive, in some misconstrued way as the word "rails" can be derived as conformist and against free thinking as one is confined to "rails." I don't think it's any of that, but just alluding that spend enough time dissecting anything and someone is bound to find issue with it.
I think the overall gist is that we developers are not always marketing people, so we spend more time on making whatever it is and less on the name. Naming things is a hassle, especially when you have no intention on making it a marketable product.
I recently wrote about a way for developers to find "good enough" names in a short period of time.
http://blog.plague-dev.de/an-algorithmic-name-finding-proces...
It works for me and my colleagues pretty well. You could give it a try if you want.
Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.
I thought on rails was referring to a category of first a person shooters http://www.giantbomb.com/on-rails/3015-169/