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Re:What would you name a new programming language? by OhMeadhbh on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:48AM (#44908728)
I can't say what I would name a language, but I always loved "WSFN" which stands for nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN_(programming_language) .
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by TristanMB on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:57AM (#44908767)
what about the following?: - B - Sage - manifest
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by VivaTechnics on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:27AM (#44908899)
Something short, simple, fundamental, low-level and deeply techie:

Xor, XORY

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These are all excellent names: C, C++, Rust, Ada, Julia, Shell, Bash, etc.

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by TristanMB on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:31AM (#44908922)
>These are all excellent names

Wholeheartedly agree. what about something like Sage? B? You/U? Manifest?

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by VivaTechnics on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:29AM (#44909564)
- Maybe, design your language first, then name it.

- Single-letter names are mostly taken (e.g., B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

- Focus on one key feature your language does better than others. Low-level languages are trending; high-level application languages are crowded. For example, if you could make assembly-style code user-friendly, that could be a strong niche.

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by l1ng0 on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:07AM (#44909436)
Bork
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by prxtl on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:05AM (#44909104)
Chai
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by chistev on Friday August 15, 2025 @10:52AM (#44913180)
Are you Nigerian? Lol
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by prxtl on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:12AM (#44929562)
Indian!
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by dileeparanawake on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:36AM (#44908940)
Dingle3000
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by andsoitis on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:03AM (#44908804)
Pro Lapse
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by 0xhald on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:36AM (#44909248)
rosa
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by jjgreen on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:34AM (#44909910)
LangeyMcLangeFace
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by dalmo3 on Friday August 15, 2025 @07:33AM (#44911077)
Gsus
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by LeonardoTolstoy on Friday August 15, 2025 @08:04AM (#44911335)
Tolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc.

With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by codingclaws on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:12AM (#44913424)
Thinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by ted_bunny on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:31AM (#44913619)
What is the language like? This seems an overbroad question to me.
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by ModernMech on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:47AM (#44948609)
"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language." - Donald Knuth
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by ted_bunny on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:36AM (#44913683)
Desperanto
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:52PM (#44914670)
Glitch = General Language Interpretation Technology Cyber Hotness.

Zone = Zero Overhead Neural Enhancement

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by ksherlock on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:45PM (#44915316)
imp. But only if it imperatively imports the implication operator.
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by recursivecaveat on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:10PM (#44915649)
Just remember the "rules of making things findable on the internet": no special characters (ascii letters only), and unique enough to be one of the top results when googled unqualified. Otherwise half of the people will start calling it "csharp" instead of C# or "golang" instead of go.

I'm partial to looking at non-english words because they frequently have these properties and there's basically an unlimited number to choose from.

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by scheintag on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:12PM (#44916347)
Didn't chatGPT come out around the time Oumuamua made its appearance? All the rendered images of Oumuamua make the asteroid appear like a GiantPetrifiedTurd, no doubt expelled by a GIANT ancient alien. This makes the acronym portion of AI technology become Chat Giant Petrified Turd, a perfect analogy for the bad odor attached to human conversing mouths. So common sense dictates that a good programming language name could be Fee-C.
Re:What would you name a new programming language? by austin-cheney on Saturday August 16, 2025 @06:09AM (#44921912)
* DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit

* WINS - white space is not syntax

* SNAP - source for network application protocol

* NSFW - node-derived structure for functions and workflow

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by ModernMech on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:45AM (#44948603)
> * DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit

Taken: https://blog.darklang.com

Re:What would you name a new programming language? by gradschool on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:54PM (#44925539)
spagbol