How did you choose the name for your programming language?

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  1. konna

    A fast functional language based on two level type theory

    The second was called Konna. AFAIK it’s Finnish for “frog”, but sources seem to disagree? I don’t speak Finnish, I got the word from a Finnish video game. My third and current language is called Peridot. I’m pretty proud of this name, although it’s less searchable than the previous ones. The origin is pretty simple, I was just looking around at gemstones and thought peridot looked neat.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. peridot

    Discontinued A fast functional language based on two level type theory

    The second was called Konna. AFAIK it’s Finnish for “frog”, but sources seem to disagree? I don’t speak Finnish, I got the word from a Finnish video game. My third and current language is called Peridot. I’m pretty proud of this name, although it’s less searchable than the previous ones. The origin is pretty simple, I was just looking around at gemstones and thought peridot looked neat.

  4. spaghetti

    A programming language that uses goto extensively (by Technohacker)

    Too late: https://github.com/Technohacker/spaghetti :)

  5. ramen

    A stream processing language and compiler for small-scale monitoring (by rixed)

    https://github.com/rixed/ramen Try again :)

  6. wheel-lang

    A small toy imperative language (with some OOP features) for demonstrating and practicing language design/implementation.

    A friend made a snarky comment that I was reinventing the wheel; hence, wheel-lang.

  7. wren

    Language with a bytecode compiler that can run on computers with only a few kB of RAM. (by darius)

    It happens I used the name before the Wren you're talking about. I don't really have a conclusion here, but it's kind of amusing.

  8. metalang99

    Full-blown preprocessor metaprogramming

    Metalang99, a metalanguage for C99. Simple :)

  9. SaaSHub

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