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Reminds me of Alan Kay's attitude[1] in naming "Smalltalk": The name was also a reaction against the "IndoEuropean god theory" where systems were named Zeus, O
by jasomill 13y ago
Reminds me of Alan Kay's attitude[1] in naming "Smalltalk":
The name was also a reaction against the "IndoEuropean god theory" where systems were named Zeus, Odin, and Thor, and hardly did anything. I figured that "Smalltalk" was so innocuous a label that if it ever did anything nice people would be pleasantly surprised.
[1] http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_III.html#OriginOfSmalltalksName http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltal...