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Comment by xondono

5 years ago

I can’t think a worse name for a programming language that of an actual language.

> The language is named after Pierre Catala, a professor of law who pionneered the French legaltech by creating a computer database of law cases, Juris-Data.

The human language is called Catalan in English and català in Catalan.

  • As a catalan myself I’m well aware of the spelling, but good luck trying to explain that to a search engine.

    I get regular hits while looking up Rust just because there’s a game with the same name.

Insightful comment that really adds something to the conversation. Thank you!