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Re:Think twice before naming your new programming language by GeneralMaximus on Saturday August 22, 2009 @07:55AM (#779258)
What about Ruby? Python? Java? Those are pretty "normal" terms. The only reason search engines can come up with nice results for those languages is that there are thousands of pages out there which mention the word "python" or "ruby" or "java" in context of programming.

I agree that J and R are (and will be) very hard to search for, but not Factor. If/when the language becomes popular, a Google search for "factor" will be dominated by results that relate to the programming language.

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Re:Think twice before naming your new programming language by jamesbritt on Saturday August 22, 2009 @12:18PM (#779455)
I remember the first time I went searching for the Io and Processing languages, expecting that the generality of the names would make it hard. I got good results right away.

On the other hand, some names make it hard to talk about things. For example, much as I like the Sequel ORM for Ruby, having a aural discussion about it is more trouble than it should be because you have to be clear when you are talking about the RUby library or SQL. (Pedant alert: SQL should be pronounced ess que el anyway, but few people do.)

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