On 21/07/2022 18:53, Mats Wichmann wrote:
On 7/21/22 11:11, Mariatta wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:05 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com <mailto:skip.montanaro@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have a perhaps stupid question. Is Discord the same as discuss.python.org <http://discuss.python.org>, just by another name? I find the similarity in names a bit confusing.
It's not the same. discuss.python.org <http://discuss.python.org> is an instance of Discourse.
Discord is something completely something else. Indeed the similarity is confusing.
As the wag said,
"These are only two hard things in computer science, cache invalidation and naming things".
Another wag said: There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Add in IP lawyers and I think naming may have advanced to being the hardest.