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Re:The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Com... by pmoriarty on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:48AM (#21496779)
While I too am frustrated at all the languages out there with common names which yield too many false positives in search results, you're really not going to convince many people by insulting them.. especially when some of the most popular and trendy languages in the world (like java, python, ruby, go) have really common names.

Honestly, I don't know what could change this trend. Apparently, software authors care more about having a catchy name over an easily searchable one.

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Re:The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Com... by phaedryx on Sunday November 10, 2019 @10:17AM (#21498249)
To be fair, Java (1995), Python (1990), and Ruby (1995) were all created before Google (1998). In a time of search engines I think that more care should be taken for naming things. Clojure is an excellent example of Rich Hickey taking the time to think about the name.
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Re:The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Com... by bequestry on Sunday November 10, 2019 @10:18AM (#21498254)
It's already the name of a popular drug that's been around for half a century, with signs pointing towards increasing usage and legalization. There's thousands of research papers on "Ecstasy" already, and millions of people searching for "tips on ecstasy" or "how to use ecstasy".

Whomever named this language is a moron.

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Re:The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Com... by cpurdy on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:50PM (#21500118)
"Whomever [sic] named this language is a moron."

That would be this moron.

I would have chosen a different name, but they were all taken.

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Re:The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Com... by bequestry on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:02PM (#21500448)
Cmon man... there's loads of names out there that can be put on resume's without raising eyebrows.
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