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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FORTRAN , short for Formula Translation
Brainfuck,
To protect my prigish sensibilities, I prefer to censor that word to
B****fuckso as not to offend anyone.😂😂😂
Ruby is a shiny and friendly name
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.
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Perfection.
Elixir. Always reminds me of the Potion Seller 🧪
Elixir of knowledge. 🤓
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.
PYTHON is the most powerful name which matches its function!!! 🐍🐍🐍
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I choose Python as coolest coding language name, because it clearly refers to a real life snake with the same name: "Python".
I like lang names C, R etc... As if they didn't even put effort to properly name the language at all.
All the single letters have been taken by single letter programming languages.
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Fortunately, now we have Unicode with a whole new selection of single letter programming languages that will be impossible to Google for on the interwebs.
If I make my own programming language, I'm going to name it after the famous pianist Lang Lang. So the Reddit forum will be langlanglang.
🤔 will be how I call my programming language.