On Dec 16, 2022, at 16:18, Corey Donohoe via ruby-talk
<ruby-talk(a)ml.ruby-lang.org> wrote:
Hoe is shitty because it comes from a terrible place
https://www.zenspider.com/ruby/2006/10/unattended-hoes.html
Apparently I "missed out" on a lot of drama on the list today. I'm not going
to touch pretty much anything that Corey/Atmos said and I hope he actually unsubscribed
because frankly we don't need that BS.
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For the record, hoe's name has never been a double entendre. It has ALWAYS been named
after a tool akin/related to rake.
Since day one, the readme has opened with:
Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles.
Every release, every blog post, every email make that beyond clear. Well, apparently not
ONE blog post. Oh well.
That someone can take a 15 year old blog post THAT far out of context in order to
manufacture some pretty misplaced outrage is bewildering to me; to then declare that the
*software* is shitty because of said manufactured outrage is, well, kinda sad.