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Because of the overlap with French languages? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d'oïl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d'oïl

temerson 5y ago
JFC, how dense are you?
remexre 5y ago
I think more because of potential confusion with the Shell Oil Company.
- chubot 5y ago
  FAQ about the name: 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... I kinda want to make a funny web page that insists that Oil Shell != Shell Oil just like Breakfast (meal) != Fast Break (basketball play) Blackjack (game) != Jack Black (actor) Bookcase != Casebook (type of textbook for law students) Backdrop (a kind of picture) != Drop back (football play apparently) upturn (improvement) != turn up (to be found) More examples appreciated :)
  - istjohn 5y ago
    call out != outcall call in != incall insight != sight-in in turn != turn in instill != still in upend != end up
  - EdwardDiego 5y ago
    * Breakwater (coastal protection against erosion) != water break (sports protection against dehydration) * love-in (peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of psychedelic drugs) != in love * takeout (North American word for food intended to be consumed away from a restaurant's premises) != outtake, a scene or song not included in the final film/album, although sometimes funny ones appear in the credits. Great takeout: https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin Great outtake: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I
    - chubot 5y ago
      I like takeout / outtake :) Also thought of overturn (reverse a decision) / turnover (accounting or employees)
  - abalaji 5y ago
    Haha, this is great @chubot you should add this to the FAQ!
  - noisy_boy 5y ago
    Outback (any remote or sparsely populated inland region) != Backout (reversal of a software change)
  - asymmetric 5y ago
    > Because Oil is a compliment to "metal"! You got a typo there, compliment != complement
    - chubot 5y ago
      Thanks, fixed!
  - dotancohen 5y ago
    chuck up != up chuck
  - kazinator 5y ago
    会社 → "kaisha" → company (e.g. Google) 社会 → "shakai" → society, the world, public ... and probably thousands of others from Japanese.
- mongol 5y ago
  Yes. Really hard to Google for.
  - jwandborg 5y ago
    You'll have the same issue with fish (even fish shell), Go, Rust (the game, the language), Airflow, and Dataflow. You can't reach perfect optimization for searchability without picking a name nobody would pick before now or in the future, and anything less than perfect is arguably subjective, and/or circumstantial, in that it depends on how you formulate your questions, and what the rest of the world has been doing up until you pressed "search". Search query disambiguation is a good skill to learn, e.g. "fish shell documentation", "go lang machine learning", "Airflow DAG best practices", "GCP Dataflow optimizations".

temerson 5y ago

JFC, how dense are you?

remexre 5y ago

I think more because of potential confusion with the Shell Oil Company.

chubot 5y ago
FAQ about the name: 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... I kinda want to make a funny web page that insists that Oil Shell != Shell Oil just like Breakfast (meal) != Fast Break (basketball play) Blackjack (game) != Jack Black (actor) Bookcase != Casebook (type of textbook for law students) Backdrop (a kind of picture) != Drop back (football play apparently) upturn (improvement) != turn up (to be found) More examples appreciated :)
- istjohn 5y ago
  call out != outcall call in != incall insight != sight-in in turn != turn in instill != still in upend != end up
- EdwardDiego 5y ago
  * Breakwater (coastal protection against erosion) != water break (sports protection against dehydration) * love-in (peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of psychedelic drugs) != in love * takeout (North American word for food intended to be consumed away from a restaurant's premises) != outtake, a scene or song not included in the final film/album, although sometimes funny ones appear in the credits. Great takeout: https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin Great outtake: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I
  - chubot 5y ago
    I like takeout / outtake :) Also thought of overturn (reverse a decision) / turnover (accounting or employees)
- abalaji 5y ago
  Haha, this is great @chubot you should add this to the FAQ!
- noisy_boy 5y ago
  Outback (any remote or sparsely populated inland region) != Backout (reversal of a software change)
- asymmetric 5y ago
  > Because Oil is a compliment to "metal"! You got a typo there, compliment != complement
  - chubot 5y ago
    Thanks, fixed!
- dotancohen 5y ago
  chuck up != up chuck
- kazinator 5y ago
  会社 → "kaisha" → company (e.g. Google) 社会 → "shakai" → society, the world, public ... and probably thousands of others from Japanese.
mongol 5y ago
Yes. Really hard to Google for.
- jwandborg 5y ago
  You'll have the same issue with fish (even fish shell), Go, Rust (the game, the language), Airflow, and Dataflow. You can't reach perfect optimization for searchability without picking a name nobody would pick before now or in the future, and anything less than perfect is arguably subjective, and/or circumstantial, in that it depends on how you formulate your questions, and what the rest of the world has been doing up until you pressed "search". Search query disambiguation is a good skill to learn, e.g. "fish shell documentation", "go lang machine learning", "Airflow DAG best practices", "GCP Dataflow optimizations".