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roland.kaufmann@space.at writes: > > Talking about fancy names, does anybody know why there seems to be a > tendency towards ``less friendly'' names for Scheme/Lisp systems > lately (or is it just me ;-) > > Rabbit nil T Guile Liar Larceny Stalin What it is, is that it's to show disrespect to the man, who wants to keep us down by forcing us to code in c, c++, perl or some equally ugly language. A name like larceny, for example, says "Hey the man, we're going to use a decent language, and will have a feature filled working program while you're still trying to figure out the STL.' Then again, it might just be that `Guile' sounds much cooler than `Fluffy White GNU Scheme Thing'. > > (I don't know enough Tolkien to place Hobbit in this subjective > ranking). Definately towards the nice end of the scale. -- Greg