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Re:Bosque Programming Language by logicallee on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:31AM (#19679990)
Could you comment on how you came up with the name, or its meaning?
Re:Bosque Programming Language by mrkmarron on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:28AM (#19680239)
It is a Spanish word used in the SouthWest US for forest along a river. No particular reason behind the name, just a unique and easily searchable choice.
Re:Bosque Programming Language by logicallee on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:12AM (#19681490)
Oh okay. I thought it might have something to do with Basque:

"Basque is a language spoken in the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France. Linguistically, Basque is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and is a language isolate to any other known living language."

I didn't know about the forest meaning at all. (Maybe a subconscious influence, if you've ever heard any reference to Basque.)

Re:Bosque Programming Language by logicallee on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:44PM (#19685270)
I'll spell it out (for the downvoter): "is a language isolate to any other known living language" as well as being "a language". It has a very special status between France and Spain. I think anyone who knows about Basque would think of Basque when reading about a computer language named Bosque.
Re:Bosque Programming Language by Udik on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:50AM (#19690966)
Not really: Bosque, Bosco, Bois, Bos, all mean "wood", "forest" in, respectively, Spanish and Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch. So it's a pretty familiar word to most Europeans.
Re:Bosque Programming Language by logicallee on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:21PM (#19692297)
OK, thanks.
Re:Bosque Programming Language by mimixco on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:08PM (#19702573)
Not if you speak Spanish. "Un bosque," a forest, isn't related to Euskera, as the Basque language in known in Spanish. That part of Spain is called Euskadi or País Vasco, neither of which looks like bosque in Spanish nor Basque in English.
Re:Bosque Programming Language by dordoka on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:55AM (#19680384)
Bosque is spanish for "forest" (not necesarily along a river).