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Utterly frivolous, but the Ruby port of Linda (given the language's Japanese origins) seems to me to have the funniest project name ever. I couldn't stop laughi
by gruseom 17y ago
Utterly frivolous, but the Ruby port of Linda (given the language's Japanese origins) seems to me to have the funniest project name ever. I couldn't stop laughing when I ran across it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinda_(Ruby_programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinda_(Ruby_programming_languag...
Perhaps this wasn't intentional, but I sure hope it was.
- fizx 17y agoFYI, be careful about using Rinda. It's quite inefficient. O(n) inserts, etc.
- shiro 17y agoI'm not an English native speaker and asking from pure curiosity: What's funny about the name? Does it have some connotations?
- lmz 17y agoI'm not gruseom, but I'm guessing it's funny because of the stereotype that Japanese people can't pronounce 'l' and will replace it with 'r'.
- gruseom 17y agoYes, "Rinda" is "Linda" pronounced with a Japanese accent, which along with the fact that Ruby starts with an R makes it the perfect name for that particular project. Unfortunately these things stop being funny and start sounding kind of mean when you spell them out in writing. My comment is absolutely not in that spirit; I just think it's the quintessentially whimsical name, really the only possible name for a Ruby implementation of Linda, and I cling to the fantasy of a room full of people (or at least one) rolling on the floor laughing when they thought of it.
- shiro 17y agoThanks, it makes sense. I just wanted to check if there's any connotations not on dictionaries.