Ohm is presumably called that because it's based on OMeta, which was called that because it was a successor to META-II that had inheritance, like OO languages.

Ohm is presumably called that because it's based on OMeta, which was called that because it was a successor to META-II that had inheritance, like OO languages. More generally, I suspect software programmers have EE envy because electrical engineers build things that actually do work, and their designs get better over time.