[Chicago] names (was Re: autoimp)

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    Phil> I don't think the stupidity of names is really a problem with
    Phil> their gaining respectibility.  The alliteration in "Ruby on Rails"
    Phil> is probably more attractive than respectible.  Did "Lisp" lose out
    Phil> to "Fortran" and "Cobol" (all names of the same generation)
    Phil> because the name was sillier?  Certainly "C" as the successor to
    Phil> "B" was silly while "Pascal" was respectible.  That didn't stop
    Phil> "C" from triumphing, at least for a time.

With the exception of Ruby on Rails, all the names you mentioned were firmly
entrenched in the computing community long before programming as an activity
exploded because of the web.

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