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Under "Why the name Miranda?": > Because it is a proper name, not an acronym, only the first letter of Miranda is capitalised. It took me a second to realize
by _bxg1 7y ago
Under "Why the name Miranda?":
> Because it is a proper name, not an acronym, only the first letter of Miranda is capitalised.
It took me a second to realize that most language names of this era were in fact all-caps acronyms
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- froh 7y agoI kindly beg to differ for the 1980s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_lang... The all-caps acronyms were the 1960s and before