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ChuckMcM on June 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specificatio...

I don't think jwz would have had a problem with it if you called it EmbeddedGL or PhoneGL instead of trading on the name of OpenGL. Like jwz I thought "Oh its OpenGL I've got code already that does most of what I want." only to find none of that code worked.

SoftwareMaven on June 20, 2012 | [–]

Were people really surprised that Java ME, Java SE and Java EE were different APIs around the same core idea of write once, run everywhere?

marshray on June 20, 2012 | [–]

So this whole rant was just about the name having a common substring of three or more characters?

I hope nobody tells JWZ what Linux was supposed to sound like.

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