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What's the alternative? A vaguely exotic-sounding name that doesn't mean anything to anyone, like Haskell? Names should be descriptive.

• mintplant 9y ago
  > like Haskell Haskell is named after the mathematician Haskell Curry. The concept of "currying" functions is essential to the language, and is named for the same person.
  • na85 9y ago
    Whoops. Bad example, I guess.