• Saganaki@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    Serious question: Is “Directed Acyclical Graph” really an unknown term for people? The author harped on it pretty hard, but what it is…is pretty apparent, no? I mean, I’ve encountered the term often, but I don’t think I had any need to look it up…

    • meanmon13@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      I'm a computer engineer with more than a decade of development experience with embedded systems... I use C/C++/python everyday and "Directed Acyclical Graph" is never mentioned by name, no one in my experience says make me a DAG. Hell, I had to look it up when I read your comment and went "oh that's what those are called". I use em to show relationships between states or to descide a system that is best diagramed using a DAG. Do I or anyone I've talked to in my career call them DAG.. lol no.

      • snowe@programming.devM
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        11 months ago

        You also use Git everyday (most likely) and that mentions Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) all over the place. https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual#the-object-database

        Just like you don't have to understand what a DAG is to use Git, you don't need to understand a DAG to use Gradle. The author is blowing smoke about nothing.

    • expr@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      It's very well-known and common knowledge. It's certainly something that I will talk about without feeling the need to define terms or something. I would assume anyone unfamiliar with it either didn't pay attention in school or never went to school to begin with.