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I really hate how MS names things. Microsoft SQL Server, or as most people call it SQL Server. I read the title to this post as Visual Studio code is now open-source - but it's not. The product some genius called Visual Studio Code has been opened.

I'm really surprised Windows isn't called Microsoft Operating System, or Operating System for short.

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> Operating System for short.

Brilliant idea. Why not go all the way and call it OS. We could then have OS 10 from MS and OS X from Apple!

What about IOS being used both by Apple and Cisco?

OS/2 is about to come back. any day now.

Eh honestly, I prefer the naming of things "what they are" as opposed to these open source names. Sometimes I wonder if ruby programmers aren't eating enough. Building an API might mean you use Cucumber, and Grape.

The problem with naming things "what they are" is that the scope of the project can change over the years, so that the name selected 5 years ago doesn't appropriately reflect what the project does now.

> I really hate how MS names things. Microsoft SQL Server, or as most people call it SQL Server.

Or, worse, just "SQL", resulting in people in some enterprise environments saying things like "Are you using Oracle or SQL?"

Slap those people until they start saying MS-SQL, that's what I've always heard where I work.

You mean like Microsoft Disk Operating System from back in the day?

Amusing counter argument, but the pendant in me wants to point out that the DOS-name was inherited from the SCP product MS bought[1] rather than a naming convention MS created

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

I wouldn't comment on any other word, but it's "pedant". :)

haha Muphry's Law[1] strikes again!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

No, he literally swallowed a pendant and it's doing odd things to his self-control.

And the pedant in me wishes to assert that Windows, strictly, follows the rule; it was originally sold as a windowing system for DOS, and the generic use of the word "window" to mean a rectangular section of the screen set aside for program output was well established.

Ahhh back when the acronym WIMP used to mean something :)

I partially blame the title. Why does it capitalize normal words in addition to the product name?

Had the title been "Visual Studio Code is now open-source" it would've been more readable IMO.

It also helps to be familiar that VSC is a product.

In Spanish (native speaker here) the norm is to capitalize just like in normal phrases. In English the norm is... different. I didn't know what they were talking about either, but didn't believe for a moment that VS was being open sourced :-)

Yes, its misleading for sure. I think `Visual Studio Code` has like 1% of features of full blown Visual Studio?

Well, yes it's a completely different bit of software.

You can't compare it like that. It's not a light version, it's an editor.

It is not just an editor. It has debugging capabilities and is extensible. Also runs on Mac and Linux and now open source. In some aspects it is much better than heavy loaded old VisualStudio.

It's not an editor, it's an IDE. Just look at the Python support they expect to add next year: "full intellisense, debugging, profiling, pkg mgmt, unit test, virtual env, multiple interpreter, Jupyter, etc. support.". All that in one program? You can't tell me that's not an IDE.

I had no idea until I read your comment. I overlooked "Code". I though Visual Studio is open-sourced and got excited :(

You're going to hate JavaScript then.

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