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All that's missing in the name is "ha" and it'd spell "kahawa" which means coffee in swahili :)

by desktopninja 5y ago

kazinator 5y ago
But then it would no longer mean "coffee" in Polish. Or "river" in Japanese.
- kazinator 5y ago
  Oh look that's what it is: "The name Kawa comes from the Polish word for coffee; a play on words, since Java is another familiar name for coffee." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa_(Scheme_implementation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa_(Scheme_implementation)
  - jhgb 5y ago
    I'm now wondering what you thought it meant? :)
  - gmfawcett 5y ago
    Interesting, I had always assumed the name was just "Java plus plus" -- ('J'+1) 'a' ('v'+1) 'a'.
    - actually_a_dog 5y ago
      Lol, kinda like WNT is VMS with each character incremented by 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
  - Per_Bothner 5y ago
    The original Kawa was an interpreter written by Alex Milowski, who is (I assume based on the last name) of Polish backgound. I essentially took over Kawa (with his permission), changed to be compiler-based, and over time re-wrote most or all of it.
skavi 5y ago
“Kawa” already comes from the Polish word for coffee. Do many languages use a similar word?
- agumonkey 5y ago
  kawa is used in France often and you now make me believe that it's a loan word :)
  - Rexxar 5y ago
    Probably from Maghreb: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/caoua https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/caoua
    - agumonkey 5y ago
      so is poland's kawa derived from maghreb caoua ?
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- desktopninja 5y ago
  Guessing then that variants of the word might popup anywhere the land had significant Arab influence from yesteryears
- jhgb 5y ago
  > Do many languages use a similar word? Here's a potentially helpful picture: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7kpolc/spread_of_the_word_for_coffee_26952231/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7kpolc/spread_of_t...
- josefrichter 5y ago
  I guess pretty much all the languages around the world use some variation of the work kava/kafe, don’t they? I can’t think of any language that wouldn’t use the word. Obviously I don’t speak all the world languages. More interesting situation is with the tea - half of the world uses some variation of the word tea, the other half uses some variation of the word chai.

All that's missing in the name is "ha" and it'd spell "kahawa" which means coffee in swahili :)

kazinator 5y ago

But then it would no longer mean "coffee" in Polish. Or "river" in Japanese.

kazinator 5y ago
Oh look that's what it is: "The name Kawa comes from the Polish word for coffee; a play on words, since Java is another familiar name for coffee." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa_(Scheme_implementation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa_(Scheme_implementation)
- jhgb 5y ago
  I'm now wondering what you thought it meant? :)
- gmfawcett 5y ago
  Interesting, I had always assumed the name was just "Java plus plus" -- ('J'+1) 'a' ('v'+1) 'a'.
  - actually_a_dog 5y ago
    Lol, kinda like WNT is VMS with each character incremented by 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
- Per_Bothner 5y ago
  The original Kawa was an interpreter written by Alex Milowski, who is (I assume based on the last name) of Polish backgound. I essentially took over Kawa (with his permission), changed to be compiler-based, and over time re-wrote most or all of it.

skavi 5y ago

“Kawa” already comes from the Polish word for coffee. Do many languages use a similar word?

agumonkey 5y ago
kawa is used in France often and you now make me believe that it's a loan word :)
- Rexxar 5y ago
  Probably from Maghreb: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/caoua https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/caoua
  - agumonkey 5y ago
    so is poland's kawa derived from maghreb caoua ?
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desktopninja 5y ago
Guessing then that variants of the word might popup anywhere the land had significant Arab influence from yesteryears
jhgb 5y ago
> Do many languages use a similar word? Here's a potentially helpful picture: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7kpolc/spread_of_the_word_for_coffee_26952231/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7kpolc/spread_of_t...
josefrichter 5y ago
I guess pretty much all the languages around the world use some variation of the work kava/kafe, don’t they? I can’t think of any language that wouldn’t use the word. Obviously I don’t speak all the world languages. More interesting situation is with the tea - half of the world uses some variation of the word tea, the other half uses some variation of the word chai.