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2020: a programming language is named Janet; a child is named X Æ A-12. How did we come to this.
by mapcars 6y ago
2020: a programming language is named Janet; a child is named X Æ A-12. How did we come to this.
- oblio 6y agoIt's not really something new. Ada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) ) was created 40 years ago. Kids with crazy names is a long standing tradition, going back millenia :-)
- mhd 6y agoAlso Amos, Haskell, Idris, Joy, Miranda or Yorick. Arguably Dylan or Pascal. I'm more confused by a name starting with a capital "J" not being associated with Java, as once was custom. As for kid's names, definitely[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9w0YSMLHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9w0YSMLHY
- mapcars 6y agoYou are right, just the timing and example is so striking :)
- aasasd 6y agoYou mean that the language should've been called ‘XÆA-12’ instead?
- qwerty456127 6y agoNo, it should've been called X Æ A-12. At least one of the normal letters (X or A) should be Cyrillic and at least one of the spaces should be actually a tab.
- Insanity 6y agosounds like a diabolical 'password rule'.
- aasasd 6y agoEh, let me introduce you to U+2060 zero-width word joiner.
- qwerty456127 6y agoThank you, I've never hear of it. Unicode is so much fun.
- Koshkin 6y agoNames starting with a ‘j’ should be reserved for languages targeting JVM.
- aasasd 6y agoIn the fine tradition of Jcala, Jotlin, Jroovy and Jlojure.
- soapdog 6y agoDamn, I almost spilled my coffee reading this :-)
- iLemming 6y agoLittle known fact: Rich Hickey initially planned to target .Net CLR and JVM, so he wanted something that has "C", "L", "R", and "J" in the name, that's how Clojure got its name.
- aasasd 6y agoWell, I guess had he put JVM first to reflect reality, the ‘Jocular’ language would evoke rather different feelings.
- catalogia 6y agoI'm sure Oracle would love that, but fuck Oracle.
- klyrs 6y agoI came here looking for "dammit, Janet" but only found that sentiment. Culture is dead.