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"Rust", "go", "cell", all of those words have a preexisting meaning which is more common than the corresponding programming languages.
by the_af 4y ago
"Rust", "go", "cell", all of those words have a preexisting meaning which is more common than the corresponding programming languages.
- danellis 4y agoThis is true of everything that is named after something, and it wasn't really something people worried about until Go, which is interesting in itself.
- the_af 4y agoI think the internet was less pervasive before, so it mattered less for C, C++, Java, and it matters a lot more now. So now, if you want to call your language Duck or Car, you better add that "-lang"! It seems to work well enough.