What would you name a new programming language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44908679

by TristanMB • 11 months ago

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No context. what are some great names for a new programming language?

OhMeadhbh• 11 months ago

I can't say what I would name a language, but I always loved "WSFN" which stands for nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN_(programming_language) .

TristanMB2• 11 months ago

what about the following?: - B - Sage - manifest

andsoitis• 11 months ago

Pro Lapse

VivaTechnics2• 11 months ago

Something short, simple, fundamental, low-level and deeply techie:

Xor, XORY

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These are all excellent names: C, C++, Rust, Ada, Julia, Shell, Bash, etc.

TristanMB2• 11 months ago

These are all excellent names

Wholeheartedly agree. what about something like Sage? B? You/U? Manifest?

VivaTechnics2• 11 months ago

- Maybe, design your language first, then name it.

- Single-letter names are mostly taken (e.g., B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

- Focus on one key feature your language does better than others. Low-level languages are trending; high-level application languages are crowded. For example, if you could make assembly-style code user-friendly, that could be a strong niche.

dileeparanawake• 11 months ago

Dingle3000

prxtl2• 11 months ago

Chai

chistev• 11 months ago

Are you Nigerian? Lol

prxtl2• 11 months ago

Indian!

0xhald• 11 months ago

rosa

l1ng0• 11 months ago

Bork

jjgreen• 11 months ago

LangeyMcLangeFace

dalmo3• 11 months ago

Gsus

LeonardoTolstoy• 11 months ago

Tolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc.

With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.

codingclaws• 11 months ago

Thinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.

ted_bunny2• 11 months ago

What is the language like? This seems an overbroad question to me.

ModernMech2• 11 months ago

"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language." - Donald Knuth

ted_bunny2• 11 months ago

Desperanto

LargoLasskhyfv• 11 months ago

Glitch = General Language Interpretation Technology Cyber Hotness.

Zone = Zero Overhead Neural Enhancement

ksherlock• 11 months ago

imp. But only if it imperatively imports the implication operator.

recursivecaveat• 11 months ago

Just remember the "rules of making things findable on the internet": no special characters (ascii letters only), and unique enough to be one of the top results when googled unqualified. Otherwise half of the people will start calling it "csharp" instead of C# or "golang" instead of go.

I'm partial to looking at non-english words because they frequently have these properties and there's basically an unlimited number to choose from.

scheintag• 11 months ago

Didn't chatGPT come out around the time Oumuamua made its appearance? All the rendered images of Oumuamua make the asteroid appear like a GiantPetrifiedTurd, no doubt expelled by a GIANT ancient alien. This makes the acronym portion of AI technology become Chat Giant Petrified Turd, a perfect analogy for the bad odor attached to human conversing mouths. So common sense dictates that a good programming language name could be Fee-C.

austin-cheney• 11 months ago

* DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit

* WINS - white space is not syntax

* SNAP - source for network application protocol

* NSFW - node-derived structure for functions and workflow

ModernMech2• 11 months ago

* DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit

Taken: https://blog.darklang.com

gradschool• 11 months ago

spagbol

What would you name a new programming language?

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