slightly OT: BUT NEEDs to be said

[Steve]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
> Aha! I've been trying to decide what to name the next language
> I invent, and now I know. It will be called:
> 
>    Buffy

Nice choice! But I think "buffy" would surely have to 
be some sort of command-line buffer tool, or better 
still, anti-buffer overflow security software. Buffy 
could save the world from security holes.

If you ask me, I think "xander" sounds more like a 
computer language, but "willow" would probably be more 
appropriate. And of course then when people write in to 
complain about how politically incorrect it is to name 
a programming language for a red-haired Jewish lesbian 
witch, we can deflect criticism by telling them it is 
named after the movie of the same name about the Little 
People.


-- 
Steven D'Aprano