Show HN: How software projects and companies got their name(github.com)
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Show HN: How software projects and companies got their name
https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/how-products-got-their-name
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I'll add this reference to the list. Or you can raise a pull request as well if you want.
Nice.
I think you need to add somewhere that C# is called C Sharp, and the idea - besides the connection to musical notation is that the character # ("sharp", though improperly as in ASCII it is "Number sign") is made out of four +'s, increasing from the two in C++, your sentence:
>C# as the '#' symbol looks like two '++' stacked on one another, indicating that C# is an increment of C++. though at the end of the day means the same, is IMHO less clear than the original from the source you cited:
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261958/a-z_programm...
>So the naming committee had to get to work and we sort of liked the notion of having an inherent reference to C in there, and a little word play on C++, as you can sort of view the sharp sign as four pluses, so it’s C++++. And the musical aspect was interesting too. So C# it was, and I’ve actually been really happy with that name. It’s served us well.
I think you need to add somewhere that C# is called C Sharp, and the idea - besides the connection to musical notation is that the character # ("sharp", though improperly as in ASCII it is "Number sign") is made out of four +'s, increasing from the two in C++, your sentence:
>C# as the '#' symbol looks like two '++' stacked on one another, indicating that C# is an increment of C++. though at the end of the day means the same, is IMHO less clear than the original from the source you cited:
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261958/a-z_programm...
>So the naming committee had to get to work and we sort of liked the notion of having an inherent reference to C in there, and a little word play on C++, as you can sort of view the sharp sign as four pluses, so it’s C++++. And the musical aspect was interesting too. So C# it was, and I’ve actually been really happy with that name. It’s served us well.
Really interesting to read about the birth of names. Gives some names a certain charm and some a certain triviality, e.g. Debian (Debra + Ian).
When Java switched hands to the Eclipse foundation last year, I learned that the foundation wasn't named after their goal of "eclipse the Sun Microsystems". That would have been awesome if true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)#Name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)#Name
I really like this. Especially because I'm bad at finding names for my projects, but I can see I'm not the only one. (Python and Laravel is my favorites)
> one of his daughter's name is My(after whom MySQL was named).
Mind blown
Mind blown
He did the same with his daughter Maria
You didn't honestly think it was your sql, right?
I thought it was a tutorial on steroids. You know programming tutorials that prefix almost every variable with "my"? MyFoo, MyBar, MyNumber, MyString, MyDatabase, MySQL...
In browser circles, 'chrome' refers to the bits of the browser UI that aren't the renderer.
It's hard for me to believe that Chrome's name didn't just originate from Google talking about taking WebKit and building their own chrome around it.
It's hard for me to believe that Chrome's name didn't just originate from Google talking about taking WebKit and building their own chrome around it.
The use of "chrome" in this context isn't limited only to browsers[0].
My recollection is that Google Chrome was so-named because one of their design goals was to _minimize_ the amount of GUI chrome, so that the maximum amount of screen space was available for displaying web page content.
[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/browser-and-gui-chrome/
My recollection is that Google Chrome was so-named because one of their design goals was to _minimize_ the amount of GUI chrome, so that the maximum amount of screen space was available for displaying web page content.
[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/browser-and-gui-chrome/
[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/README.md