Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Roger Price (12023-07-03):
> > Exactly my point that inanimate objects of which there are many
> > examples are best known by numbers. Numbers so well known that
> > songs are written about the number: historic US 66 [1], and in
> > France the historic N7 [2], a vacation highway.
>
> And you know which one is the N6 or the N8? Or the US route 65 or 67?
No but I live in the UK and I know the A1, A2, A4, A5, A6 and many
others, plus the M1, M4, M5, M6.
> The objects that are by their number are the exception, not the rule.
There are roads whose 'numbers' I don't know but I don't know the
'names' of any of them except for rare exceptions such as 'the Great
North Road'. But road numbers are mostly just labels, although there is
a kind of system for allocating them.
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