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The tech aside, this is horrendous naming! The oil language puts in my mind the image of "oily greasy hair", commonly associated with someone sly and contriving
by jimmyed 5y ago
The tech aside, this is horrendous naming! The oil language puts in my mind the image of "oily greasy hair", commonly associated with someone sly and contriving.
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- goto11 5y agoI take it you are not a fan of Scheme and Racket?
- jimmyed 5y agoHaha, and python too? But no, those all I don't have a problem with. With Oil, maybe Harry Potter (Snape) has something to do with it.
- greatpatton 5y agoAs HN is covering so many different subjects, I thought that it was related to these oil languages :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl
- chubot 5y agoThis might help: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-project-named-oil http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-proj...