Re:How Programming Languages Got Their Names
by mjhay on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:49PM
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Wolfram's ego is the size of at least two dozen Carl Sagan egos.
Re:How Programming Languages Got Their Names
by tromp on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:14PM
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That reminds me of https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Edsger_W._Dijkstra#nano-D...
Does anyone else think it's a bit too much to name something after yourself? Even in math and physics, scientists often don't name it after themselves—their colleagues do it to give credit where it's due (e.g., Colomb's law, Planck's constant, etc.)