Phantom Mongoose: Software Version Numbers Need to be Dressed Up

mong8se:

Modern software version numbers offend my sensibilities.

To quote wikipedia:

When a period is used to separate sequences, it does not represent a decimal point, and the sequences do not have positional significance. An identifier of 2.5, for instance, is not “two and a half” or “half way to…

(Source: mong8se)

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  2. jiltedcitizen said: Not sure how version numbers are done in Ruby, but in M$ land we generally have 1.x.xx.xx. Only first two are relevant for the customer. I don’t even know how to type a necktie, so I’m against the new symbol.
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