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Re:Renaming Coq by SilasX on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:10AM (#26739775)
Hah! Yes, a while ago I came up with the "fan theory" that the French named Coq as revenge for exactly that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26739666

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Re:Renaming Coq by jcelerier on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:06PM (#26741230)
this, or it just comes from one of the original authors' name, Thierry Coquand ?
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Re:Renaming Coq by Blaisorblade0 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:06PM (#26746001)
We _know_ it doesn’t just come from Coquand’s name, because Gérard Huet very clearly said so.
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