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What would you name a new programming language?
6 points by TristanMB 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 26 comments
No context. what are some great names for a new programming language?


Just 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.


Tolstoy 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.


I 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) .


what about the following?: - B - Sage - manifest


Didn'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.


* 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


> * DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit

Taken: https://blog.darklang.com


Something short, simple, fundamental, low-level and deeply techie:

Xor, XORY

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These are all excellent names: C, C++, Rust, Ada, Julia, Shell, Bash, etc.


>These are all excellent names

Wholeheartedly agree. what about something like Sage? B? You/U? Manifest?


- 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)

- 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.


Glitch = General Language Interpretation Technology Cyber Hotness.

Zone = Zero Overhead Neural Enhancement


Chai


Are you Nigerian? Lol


Indian!


What is the language like? This seems an overbroad question to me.


"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


Thinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.


LangeyMcLangeFace


Desperanto


imp. But only if it imperatively imports the implication operator.


Gsus


Bork


rosa


Dingle3000


Pro Lapse


spagbol




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