Comment by yaantc
11 years ago
Honi soit qui mal y pense ;) A coq is a rooster in French, as can be seen from the coq logo. One of the author is called Coquand, the rooster is the emblem of France (where it comes from) and the coq language is called gallina (rooster in latin). So it's a multi levels pun, and likely here to stay. There's a grand tradition of goofy names in open source, but in this case I feel it's safe to say it won't be the main barrier to mass adoption.
It's also, IIRC, based on a logical model called the Calculus of Constructions - or CoC, for short.
> It's also, IIRC, based on a logical model called the Calculus of Constructions
"Calculus of Inductive Constructions" (https://coq.inria.fr/about-coq)
From your link:
> Coq is the result of more than 20 years of research. It started in 1984 from an implementation of the Calculus of Constructions at INRIA-Rocquencourt by Thierry Coquand and Gérard Huet. In 1991, Christine Paulin extended it to the Calculus of Inductive Constructions.
The CoC provides the basic framework for Coq, while the Co(I)C or even the Calculus of (Co)-Inductive Constructions provides a dramatic extension in power and expressivity necessary for "real" programming in Coq.