Re: Name of the standard library

[Lassi Kortela]

> Why wouldn’t this smart newbie learn more?

Many things are competing for his time.

> I mean, in an alternate 
> universe, the CIPM and or their predecessors might have liked soccer 
> (cf. Ice-9) very much and called the unit of mass the ‘football’ instead 
> of the ‘(kilo)gram’. In that universe, “the unit of mass is called 
> footballs” would be a perfectly reasonable sentence (not a non-sequitur) 
> that doesn’t prevent (SI) measurement newbies from learning more about 
> the other SI units – the units don’t need to share a name with SI.

While reality is indeed a fiction, it is a shared fiction. That's why 
the list type is "list", the unit of mass is "kilogram", etc.

Alternate universes are a distinct hobby. In programming, that hobby is 
represented by esoteric languages.