Coding languages receive their names from a variety of sources, such as:
- Inventor's Name
- Descriptive Names
- Acronyms
- Inspiration from Existing Languages
- Historical or Cultural References
- Functional Descriptions
Unravelling the stories behind coding languages is fun! It unveils the human stories, ignites curiosity, and adds an another dash of creativity and playfulness to the world of coding. In your opinion, what's the coolest coding language moniker of all time? Why?
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Top comments (35)
CHILL must be the winner 😁
In computing, CHILL is a procedural programming language designed for use in telecommunication switches. The language is still used for legacy systems in some telecommunication companies and for signal box programming.
I always liked Rust, for whatever reason.
I Love Rust too! Favorite systems language for sure. I really hope to see the growth of gaming frameworks like Bevy into full fledged game engine GUI's. Until then, I'll just keep playing with Kotlin in Godot.
I'm not a part of or affiliated with the Rust development team.
Brainfuck,
To protect my prigish sensibilities, I prefer to censor that word to
B****fuckso as not to offend anyone.😂😂😂
Coffeescript. Because of coffee, of course
Flutter is much better name than Dart imo.
How about LIPS
Scheme based powerful lisp interpreter in JavaScript
LIPS is a powerful Scheme-based, Lisp language written in JavaScript It is based on the Scheme dialect of lisp and the R5RS/R7RS specifications. It has extensions to make it easier to interact with JavaScript and extend the language. It work both in the browser and with Node.js.
The aim of the project is to support full R7RS specification and be compatible with Scheme programming language.
The name is a recursive acronym which stands for LIPS Is Pretty Simple.
Demo
Web REPL Demo
Features
Installation
To install you can use npm (or yarn)
NOTE: The version that is on NPM is…
Ruby is a shiny and friendly name
For those interested in widening their knowledge of just how many languages there are:
99-bottles-of-beer.net/
..which holds the archives for programs in 1500 languages that all run the same algorithm: singing the 99 bottles of beer song... try not to get lost!
99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-lo...
Perfection.
..my personal favourite language name: Scheme (steeples fingers and grins wryly at the camera)
Elixir. Always reminds me of the Potion Seller 🧪
Elixir of knowledge. 🤓
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