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Will Faught
April 2016
Programming Language Naming Patterns
On the classification of programming language names: Artificially shortened names: Scheme (from “Schemer”, following on from “Planner” and “Conniver”; shortened to fit in 6 characters because ofa limitation of the ITS operating system) Perl (from “Pearl”, the precious stone; shortened to avoid a clash with “some obscure graphics language called Pearl”) Forth (from “Fourth”, because its creator considered Forth a “fourth-generation language”; shortened to fit into 5 characters because of a limitation on the IBM 1130) The origins of some programming language names are fascinating.
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