Why is it called “Rust”? [closed]

There is a thread on reddit that claims the answer. TL;DR: Rust is named after a fungus that is robust, distributed, and parallel. It is also a subsequence of “robust”. Found another interesting quote: Also, calling Rust a research language is funny to me because — as its name reflects — we’ve tried hard to … Read more

What is a request-response pair called? [duplicate]

RFC2616 calls it an Exchange. Wireshark and HTTPNetworkSniffer call it a Request/Response. Fiddler calls it a Session. Charles calls it a Sequence. HTTP Scoop calls it a Conversation. Other vocabulary includes: Message, Transaction, Communication. I would go for Exchange or RequestResponse. I also went to name it Operation in my code as I would queue … Read more

When setting environment variables in Apache RewriteRule directives, what causes the variable name to be prefixed with “REDIRECT_”?

This behavior is unfortunate and doesn’t even appear to be documented. .htaccess per-dir context Here’s what appears to happen in .htaccess per-directory (per-dir) context: Assume that Apache processes an .htaccess file that includes rewrite directives. Apache populates its environment variable map with all of the standard CGI / Apache variables Rewriting begins Environment variables are … Read more

Parameter naming: filename or fileName?

Lower camel case is recommended for fields and parameters. Example 1: fileName // for fields, parameters, etc. FileName // for properties, class names, etc. Generally, fileName is used and NOT filename; you can verify that by reading source code of open source stuff created by Microsoft, such as Enterprise Library. Reasons: The main point behind … Read more

What’s the best approach to naming classes?

I’ll cite some passages from Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck: Simple Superclass Name “[…] The names should be short and punchy. However, to make the names precise sometimes seems to require several words. A way out of this dilemma is picking a strong metaphor for the computation. With a metaphor in mind, even single words … Read more

Does the use of the “Async” suffix in a method name depend on whether the ‘async’ modifier is used?

I think the truth is ambiguous even from Microsoft documentation: In Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5, any method that is attributed with the async keyword (Async in Visual Basic) is considered an asynchronous method, and the C# and Visual Basic compilers perform the necessary transformations to implement the method asynchronously by using … Read more

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