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Near the top of Nimrod's homepage (http://nimrod-lang.org/ http://nimrod-lang.org/) is the following quotation, which leads me to believe that the language crea
by dded 13y ago
Near the top of Nimrod's homepage (http://nimrod-lang.org/ http://nimrod-lang.org/) is the following quotation, which leads me to believe that the language creators think they have picked a good name:
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-- D. E. Knuth
But "Nimrod" might not be as good of a name as they hope. The biblical Nimrod was a "mighty hunter", and the name may have that connotation in Europe: the British seem to have always had a warship or a warplane (or both) named Nimrod, for instance. But in the US, due to the ironic use of the name by Bugs Bunny to address Elmer Fudd, we tend to associate "Nimrod" with incompetence and gullibility.
- dded 13y agoI'm not sure why this is down-voted. Connotations differ in different cultures; I merely point out that "Nimrod" does not have a universally positive connotation. If this is connotation is intentional, perhaps as humor, please just tell me I'm not getting the joke.
- dom96 13y agoI believe that the reason the name Nimrod was picked was because according to the Bible Nimrod was the first king. The fact that the word has a negative connotation in the US is a bad coincidence. It however seems too late to change the name now. But is it really so bad? Many people use Git and in Britain 'git' has similar negative connotations, as Nimrod does in the US.
- dded 13y ago> But is it really so bad? I don't know. It's not like "Gimp", which is viewed by some as insulting to handicapped people. But it wasn't clear to me that the Nimrod developers were even aware of the US connotations, so I brought it up. Perhaps the "Git" comparison is apt; as far as the US is concerned, that's the sort of name that's been picked.