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Re: What would you name a new programming language?

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Post by l1ng0 » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 7:07 AM UTC

Bork

Re: What would you name a new programming language?

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Post by VivaTechnics » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 7:29 AM UTC

TristanMB wrote: post #7

VivaTechnics wrote: post #6

Something short, simple, fundamental, low-level and deeply techie: Xor, XORY ------ These are all excellent names: C, C++, Rust, Ada, Julia, Shell, Bash, etc.

>These are all excellent names Wholeheartedly agree. what about something like Sage? B? You/U? Manifest?

- Maybe, design your language first, then name it.

- Single-letter names are mostly taken (e.g., B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

- Focus on one key feature your language does better than others. Low-level languages are trending; high-level application languages are crowded. For example, if you could make assembly-style code user-friendly, that could be a strong niche.

Re: What would you name a new programming language?

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Post by jjgreen » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 8:34 AM UTC

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Re: What would you name a new programming language?

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Post by dalmo3 » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 11:33 AM UTC

Gsus

Re: What would you name a new programming language?

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Post by LeonardoTolstoy » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 12:04 PM UTC

Tolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc.

With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.