Comment by tirant
5 years ago
Indeed, not the best name, but according to the README, the reason for chosing it was the following:
"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 research group that he led in the late 1960s, the Centre d’études et de traitement de l’information juridique (CETIJ), has also influenced the creation by state conselor Lucien Mehl of the Centre de recherches et développement en informatique juridique (CENIJ), which eventually transformed into the entity managing the LegiFrance website, acting as the public service of legislative documentation."
I'm wondering what could result of the combination of smart contracts on a blockchain and this legal language.
Which is a bit circular, because Pierre’s last name is a reference to the region that speaks that language, since he was born in neighboring Occitanie.
The somewhat ironic logic here being that a name referencing a place is very unlikely to come from that place. If Jordi moves from a Catalan area to an Occitan area then he (and his descendants) might be known as "Jordi the Catalan". It wouldn't be very useful to pick that as a name for someone who never left though.
Of course nowadays people's names are mostly just symbolic, and you can move to England and still be called Johnny English.
(In fact, as a sibling comment notes, maybe SQL is named after him.)
>Of course nowadays people's names are mostly just symbolic, and you can move to England and still be called Johnny English.
This depends on the language. In Spanish (and by extension every romance language) no one would know the meaning of Alvarado (they would associate it with the name Álvaro, but just that) or González, but it would be awful to have a name like "Marcos Café/Marrón" (Marcus Brown) or "Carlos Panadero" (Carlos Baker).
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Kind of like how, if someone's last name is Ashkenaz/Ashkenazi, you know they're a Sephardic Jew.