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What would you name a new programming language?

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Re: What would you name a new programming language?

#22
Just remember the "rules of making things findable on the internet": no special characters (ascii letters only), and unique enough to be one of the top results when googled unqualified. Otherwise half of the people will start calling it "csharp" instead of C# or "golang" instead of go.

I'm partial to looking at non-english words because they frequently have these properties and there's basically an unlimited number to choose from.

Re: What would you name a new programming language?

#23
Didn't chatGPT come out around the time Oumuamua made its appearance? All the rendered images of Oumuamua make the asteroid appear like a GiantPetrifiedTurd, no doubt expelled by a GIANT ancient alien. This makes the acronym portion of AI technology become Chat Giant Petrified Turd, a perfect analogy for the bad odor attached to human conversing mouths. So common sense dictates that a good programming language name could be Fee-C.

Re: What would you name a new programming language?

#27

* DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit * WINS - white space is not syntax * SNAP - source for network application protocol * NSFW - node-derived structure for functions and workflow

> * DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit

Taken: https://blog.darklang.com

Re: What would you name a new programming language?

#28

What is the language like? This seems an overbroad question to me.

"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language." - Donald Knuth
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