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> D. Richard Hipp (DRH) was building software for the USS Oscar Austin, a Navy destroyer. The existing software would just stop working whenever the server went down (this was in the 2000s). For a battleship, this was unacceptable.

Maybe it's a nitpick, but a destroyer is not a battleship. The latter weren't even in service in the 2000's.

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As a Navy veteran, I agree with you. As a descriptivist, I can accept someone referring to a destroyer, carrier, gator freighter, or anything else that carries lots of armament a "battle ship".

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Both the words "Battleship" and "War ship" are used by DRH to describe USS Oscar Austin, so I used the same.

I did not know about distinction, so TIL!

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