Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: creating a new language Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:54:30 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <6555abbf-4d7a-480c-9c56-39edc3dc0188@googlegroups.com> <51f05a34$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0d73d8cc209bff1c6395088b400d0605"; logging-data="1356"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/9zwGnl6EuErt8cUuc0QNt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: <51f05a34$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Fwn/FL/G/aGvPa+LGPko+65jXk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:24828 On 7/24/2013 6:50 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 7/24/2013 4:24 AM, Roedy Green wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:06:24 -0700 (PDT), mcheung63@gmail.com wrote, >> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> >>> creating a new language, i want to call it Titan. >> >> It is easy to pronounce, but it already has two meanings -- the moon >> and the giants of Greek mythology. It might also get confused with >> Titian the artist. >> >> For google, you want a unique spelling. > > So Java is doomed because there is an island with that name. > > And C# is doomed because that is used in music. > > I don't think so. He could try "hiybbprqag" ... -- Eric Sosman esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid