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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by JadeNB on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:11PM (#8352672)
> Here, Araq has taken an association that is generally viewed as slightly humorous and moved to a name with which no one has any associations, either good or bad.

That's not true; every mathematician knows the game of Nim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim (_asummers points this out below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8352021). I agree that it's a pretty neutral association, but, then again, did the name 'Nimrod' ever really have anything to do with the language? (I don't know.)

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by adrusi on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:57PM (#8352893)
Nimrod was a character in the story of the tower of babel, which explains the diversity of languages in the old testament. Hence its relation to programming languages.
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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by andrewflnr on Monday September 22, 2014 @07:20PM (#8353233)
Ah, no. Nimrod had nothing to do with Babel.
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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by adrusi on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:19AM (#8355431)
OK, maybe not, but according to wikipedia's page on him:

> Extra-biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God.

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