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I can’t think a worse name for a programming language that of an actual language.

• 627467 6y ago
  > The language is named after Pierre Catala, a professor of law who pionneered the French legaltech by creating a computer database of law cases, Juris-Data.
  • 627467 6y ago
    By the way: catala is latin spelling of bengali name for a fish as well.
• dmurray 6y ago
  The human language is called Catalan in English and català in Catalan.
  • xondono 6y ago
    As a catalan myself I’m well aware of the spelling, but good luck trying to explain that to a search engine. I get regular hits while looking up Rust just because there’s a game with the same name.
• csb6 6y ago
  Insightful comment that really adds something to the conversation. Thank you!