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Ah, gotcha. Maybe it didn't initially say "Julia Lang"; it does now, perhaps thanks to your comment.
by rattray 9y ago
Ah, gotcha. Maybe it didn't initially say "Julia Lang"; it does now, perhaps thanks to your comment.
- yesenadam 9y agoHehe no. It said "Julia Lang v0.7" but I'm not insider enough to think of Julia the language when I read that. I wondered "Who is Julia Lang? Hmm must be some software?" etc
- doodpants 9y agoI'd think that most regular readers of Hacker News would naturally interpret "____ Lang" as referring to a programming language, but clearly there's some ambigutity. I would have the opposite problem; if a Hacker News item was titled "Fred Lang Has Died", my first thought would be: "I didn't even know there was a programming language called Fred. It must have died from obscurity." :-)
- yesenadam 9y agoI guess the problem is with the name Julia, which is lovely but you have to specify that you mean the language—no-one ever mistakes what "C++" refers to.