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anioulast Friday at 2:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

As side note. Maybe someone knows, why rust devs chose an already used name for language changes proposal? "RFC" was already taken and well-established and I simply refuse to accept that someone wasn't aware about Request For Comments - and if it was true and clash was created deliberately, then it was rude and arrogant.

Every, ...king time, when I read something like "RFC 2789 introduced a sparse HTTP protocol." my brain suffers from a short-circuit. BTW: RFC 2789 is a "Mail Monitoring MIB".


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Conan_Kudoyesterday at 12:29 PM

Ask them, don't ask us. They have a public interface, you can ask them to change the name to something unique.

adastra22last Friday at 2:30 PM

There are many, many RFC collections. Including many that predate the IETF. Some even predate computers.

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