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Re:Coq mulls new name for programming language by yakubin on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:08AM (#27513184)
I thought forking referred to what's happening to the process tree, similar to what forking means in chess.
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Re:Coq mulls new name for programming language by choward on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:27AM (#27513299)
That's the entire point. Coq doesn't mean male genitalia either. But because it happens to spelled or sound like another word it is treated like that word.
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