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It is unfortunate so many projects have overlapping names, even playing off the same kind of puns. This: NaCL + Sodium Google: NaCl (Native Client) + Pepper

• tptacek 14y ago
  DJB's NaCL is an academic project that dates at least back to 2008.
  • apaprocki 14y ago
    I'm just lamenting to no one in particular that in the universe of available words/acronyms/abbreviations to describe projects we have as many collisions as we do. If I had to choose (ugh), DJB's NaCL acronym is at least more specific to its purpose than NaCl meaning "Native Client" just to make a salt + pepper pun. I guess all I'm saying is that if I ever write an open-source slab allocator, I won't call it OpenSSl.
    • tptacek 14y ago
      Of course not. You'd call it "6 Minute Slabs".
    • bascule 14y ago
      djb's NaCl and Google's NaCl appeared around the same time. The naming conflict is unfortunate, but it happens. Hopefully Sodium doesn't suffer from the same namespace collision.
• bathat 14y ago
  It's not quite as bad as Maxima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29), though, where it almost feels like the project was intentionally named in a way to make googling difficult.
  • newman314 14y ago
    Like Go?
    • qznc 14y ago
      C, D, R, Io, ... Most single letters are taken for programming languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
      • ics 14y ago
        The APL guys had it figured out.