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What would you name a new programming language?
No context. what are some great names for a new programming language?
- VivaTechnics 1y agoSomething short, simple, fundamental, low-level and deeply techie: Xor, XORY ------ These are all excellent names: C, C++, Rust, Ada, Julia, Shell, Bash, etc.
- TristanMB 1y ago>These are all excellent names Wholeheartedly agree. what about something like Sage? B? You/U? Manifest?
- VivaTechnics 1y ago- Maybe, design your language first, then name it. - Single-letter names are mostly taken (e.g., B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) - Focus on one key feature your language does better than others. Low-level languages are trending; high-level application languages are crowded. For example, if you could make assembly-style code user-friendly, that could be a strong niche.
- OhMeadhbh 1y agoI can't say what I would name a language, but I always loved "WSFN" which stands for nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN_(programming_language) .
- TristanMB 1y agowhat about the following?: - B - Sage - manifest
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- andsoitis 1y agoPro Lapse
- dileeparanawake 1y agoDingle3000
- prxtl 1y agoChai
- 0xhald 1y agorosa
- l1ng0 1y agoBork
- jjgreen 1y agoLangeyMcLangeFace
- dalmo3 1y agoGsus
- LeonardoTolstoy 1y agoTolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc. With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.
- codingclaws 1y agoThinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.
- ted_bunny 1y agoWhat is the language like? This seems an overbroad question to me.
- ModernMech 1y ago"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." - Donald Knuth
- ted_bunny 1y agoDesperanto
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoGlitch = General Language Interpretation Technology Cyber Hotness. Zone = Zero Overhead Neural Enhancement
- ksherlock 1y agoimp. But only if it imperatively imports the implication operator.
- recursivecaveat 1y agoJust remember the "rules of making things findable on the internet": no special characters (ascii letters only), and unique enough to be one of the top results when googled unqualified. Otherwise half of the people will start calling it "csharp" instead of C# or "golang" instead of go. I'm partial to looking at non-english words because they frequently have these properties and there's basically an unlimited number to choose from.
- scheintag 1y agoDidn't chatGPT come out around the time Oumuamua made its appearance? All the rendered images of Oumuamua make the asteroid appear like a GiantPetrifiedTurd, no doubt expelled by a GIANT ancient alien. This makes the acronym portion of AI technology become Chat Giant Petrified Turd, a perfect analogy for the bad odor attached to human conversing mouths. So common sense dictates that a good programming language name could be Fee-C.
- austin-cheney 1y ago* DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit * WINS - white space is not syntax * SNAP - source for network application protocol * NSFW - node-derived structure for functions and workflow
- ModernMech 1y ago> * DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit Taken: https://blog.darklang.com https://blog.darklang.com
- gradschool 1y agospagbol