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thewhitetuliptoday at 6:36 AM2 repliesview on HN

I dislike this trend of common words being used for tools

It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop?


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boobsbrtoday at 8:18 AM

Java and Ruby were created in 1995.

Lua in 1993.

Python in 1991.

C in 1972.

Lisp in 1960.

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linzhangruntoday at 7:23 AM

Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches.