Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 04:34:05PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> the name. RPG is commonly the abbreviation for role playing game, and
There are many others:
>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010) [foldoc]:
RPG
1. <games> {Role-Playing Game}.
2. <tool> {Report Program Generator}.
3. <person> {Richard Gabriel}.
(1999-10-12)
>From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
RPG
Report Program Generator
>From Wikipedia:
Rocket-propelled grenade, a shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon
Role-playing game, in which players act out the roles of characters in a narrative game
Role-playing video game, a type of computer or video game
RPG Life Sciences, Indian pharmaceutical company
RPG Group, Indian business group
Rally of the Guinean People, Guinean political party
IBM RPG, a native programming language for IBM's System i servers
Rebounds Per Game, see Rebound (basketball)
Retrograde pyelogram, a medical imaging procedure to visualize the urinary tract
Regulation Prescription Glasses, another name for GI glasses
> indeed, if you do an apt-get search rpg, the majority of the results are
But there no package named rpg.
> As such, I find rpg to be a too common and confusing name, as it has
> nothing to do with role playing games.
There are too many homonym in our life. It is hard to avoid all of them.
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