From: edek.pienkowski@gmail.com   
      
   Dnia Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:29:57 -0700, Robert Wessel napisal:   
      
   > On Fri,  6 Jul 2012 11:55:29 -0700 (PDT), Edek Pienkowski   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Dnia Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:17:26 -0700, goran.pusic napisal:   
   >>   
   >>Out of pure decency, one does not call "nat. gas" something which you   
   >>cannot be used as natural gas. Unless of course one wants to dump a lot   
   >>of one's product in the market with the hope that their product will be   
   >>called "natural gas" and not the commodity which has always been called   
   >>natural gas, or at least that they will be confused. Try that on any   
   >>exchange market and you will find that there are regulations, and that   
   >>these regulations are a Good Thing. And the regulations are arbitrary,   
   >>they are agreed upon.   
   >   
   > Would this argument not prohibit the name "C++" itself?[...]   
   >   
   > And to quibble with your natural gas analogy - consider biodiesel, which   
   > is chemically a fair bit different than the regular stuff, but   
   > compatible in some, but definitely *not* all, applications.   
      
   Most engines which run on diesel will also run on biodiesel. In general   
   biodiesel also has strict norms and its introduction did raise some   
   discussions.   
      
   I'll twist it further: only one company's engines run on "tomato   
   juice gasoline". While it is ingenious, they were asked what kind   
   of gasoline is that, and the statement was that their engines also   
   run on "pure gasoline", so the tomato juice is also called gasoline.   
      
   I am not sure if the flaw of this reasoning is obvious or not, but   
   if I pour diesel in my car the effect would be about the same if   
   I pour tomato juice in it. I would need to have the car   
   transported to my mechanic, and he would just look at me with   
   deep worry and say nothing, maybe adding that my car runs   
   on gasoline, not diesel, and certainly not tomato juice.   
      
   But with C++/CLI there is no such problem for some. After all,   
   Visual Studio can compile both C++ and C++/CLI.   
      
   Edek   
      
      
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