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It wasn't from "day one". The name Racket is only about 10 years old. It started life as PLT Scheme. A racket is a kind of scheme. EDIT: You've edited your po

It wasn't from "day one". The name Racket is only about 10 years old. It started life as PLT Scheme. A racket is a kind of scheme. EDIT: You've edited your post to include more ridiculous assertions. Python was literally named after Monty Python. You know what, whatever, I'm not playing this stupid game.

zests 7y ago
> A racket is a kind of scheme. That's hilarious. It only took me 5 years to get.
- catalogia 7y ago
  'Gambit Scheme' has a similar style of name.
  - cgsullivan 7y ago
    Gambit Scheme is also a pun on Marc Feeley's surname in Irish -- O Fithcheallaigh -- which means 'chess player'. The name is derived from the ancient Irish board game fidchell, rules unknown, but taken to be akin to chess. https://www.libraryireland.com/names/of/o-fithcheallaigh.php https://www.libraryireland.com/names/of/o-fithcheallaigh.php
  - skrishnamurthi 7y ago
    That's a bit different. Guy Steele's first Scheme compiler was called RABBIT (it ran fast). The Yale T project created the Orbit compiler. This set off a *bit trend, including Gambit and also Will Clinger's Twobit.
- Igelau 7y ago
  Guile makes sense now too.
lowdose 7y ago
You are right that I removed in sentence because I read to quick but the whole article is about naming. Is it so strange to comment on specific names? I don't think the authors could have done worst. Synonyms for racket: haphazardness, disagreement, noise, stochasticity, interference, dissonance, dissension, fraudulent scheme, disturbance, randomness, illegitimate enterprise.
- traes 7y ago
  > fraudulent scheme It's a joke.
- macintux 7y ago
  You don’t think they could have done worse? I present to you “Brainfuck”. This is an odd hill you’re choosing to die on.
  - traes 7y ago
    I mean, the creators of Brainfuck weren't exactly aiming for widespread adoption.
traes 7y ago
In fact, that's clarified in the very next sentence of the article.

zests 7y ago

> A racket is a kind of scheme. That's hilarious. It only took me 5 years to get.

catalogia 7y ago
'Gambit Scheme' has a similar style of name.
- cgsullivan 7y ago
  Gambit Scheme is also a pun on Marc Feeley's surname in Irish -- O Fithcheallaigh -- which means 'chess player'. The name is derived from the ancient Irish board game fidchell, rules unknown, but taken to be akin to chess. https://www.libraryireland.com/names/of/o-fithcheallaigh.php https://www.libraryireland.com/names/of/o-fithcheallaigh.php
- skrishnamurthi 7y ago
  That's a bit different. Guy Steele's first Scheme compiler was called RABBIT (it ran fast). The Yale T project created the Orbit compiler. This set off a *bit trend, including Gambit and also Will Clinger's Twobit.
Igelau 7y ago
Guile makes sense now too.

lowdose 7y ago

You are right that I removed in sentence because I read to quick but the whole article is about naming. Is it so strange to comment on specific names? I don't think the authors could have done worst. Synonyms for racket: haphazardness, disagreement, noise, stochasticity, interference, dissonance, dissension, fraudulent scheme, disturbance, randomness, illegitimate enterprise.

traes 7y ago
> fraudulent scheme It's a joke.
macintux 7y ago
You don’t think they could have done worse? I present to you “Brainfuck”. This is an odd hill you’re choosing to die on.
- traes 7y ago
  I mean, the creators of Brainfuck weren't exactly aiming for widespread adoption.

traes 7y ago

In fact, that's clarified in the very next sentence of the article.