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Just being that guy: is there a reason you didn't call it hq?

• zamadatix 5y ago
  Not author but neither is the poster: Jq got away with it because it's one of the few 2 letter combinations that wasn't absolutely overloaded and "jquery" was already taken. OTOH nobody shortens HTML to H and HQ is an extremely common acronym, if not one of the most popular 2 letter acronyms you could pick.
  • OJFord 5y ago
    jq didn't get away with it! Have you never tried searching for anything to do with it? How I wish it were called `jsonq`!
• mgdm 5y ago
  I just wanted to be slightly more descriptive and less likely to collide with other tools.
  • notRobot 5y ago
    Hahah, I love how this is your second comment in 10 years on HN.
    • mgdm 5y ago
      Hah. Yeah. I had another account for a little while but then HN started to let me reset the password for this one quite recently, so here I am.