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For Americans who don't want to click the link: "Spack" is basically a milder British-English version of "retard". Imagine how well the "Spaz programming langua

For Americans who don't want to click the link: "Spack" is basically a milder British-English version of "retard". Imagine how well the "Spaz programming language" would do in your market.

stonogo 4y ago
I think it would probably do fine, given we have languages like Brainfuck, image editors named The GIMP, parallel-processing tools named Linda (after the star of a pornographic film), etc. I just don't think people are that sensitive about software naming. There used to be a relatively popular package called "System Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks." A friend of mine still has a physical copy of O'Reilly's "Protecting Networks With SATAN."
- kichimi 4y ago
  Those names dont serve to degrade people. For me, as a British person, this software is basically called Retard. I'm not sensitive enough to care but some people will find this offensive or at least make them pause before suggesting its use. Some word filters will filter this out too.
  - TheDesolate0 4y ago
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mellosouls 4y ago
It's certainly not milder.
- bee_rider 4y ago
  FWIW “retard” is not very mild at all in US-English nowadays, it has been essentially removed from even mildly polite conversation (which is to say, if I’m hanging out with friends, and we’re all happily swearing away as one might with friends, we’d still avoid it, it is firmly in the “slur” category). This is a moderately recent occurrence in the US; around here I want to say very strong pushback started to occur around… I dunno, 15 or so years ago? Anyway, I’m not sure how that compares. But “less serious than retard” sets the ceiling pretty high, for the US audience.