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Re:The Ur Programming Language Family by Dylan16807 on Friday September 04, 2015 @03:13PM (#10172286)
So there's at least three unrelated functional languages whose names start with Ur?

(being slightly loose with definitions)

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Re:The Ur Programming Language Family by yarvin9 on Friday September 04, 2015 @04:10PM (#10172634)
Also not related: Urbit.

"Ur-" is the Germanic prefix for "original or primitive," which obviously appeals to functional programmers. And of course, Abraham was originally from there:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

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Re:The Ur Programming Language Family by kragen on Friday September 04, 2015 @07:22PM (#10173271)
Curtis, have you been banned from Hacker News 8 times? While I find your politics odious, I would find that kind of mistreatment of you odious as well. (I don't remember if we met, though we overlapped at Spiral Muse.)
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Re:The Ur Programming Language Family by Dylan16807 on Friday September 04, 2015 @04:19PM (#10172672)
Urbit is the third one I meant.
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