On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:07:31 +0100, R.S. wrote: >A little bit out of topic: Kotlin is a small town in Poland and famous >brand of Ketchup (from factory located in Kotlin). >I'm not aware of any IT activities in Kotlin, except I'm pretty sure >there is no mainframe there. ;-) > It's a different one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)#History
The name comes from Kotlin Island, near St. Petersburg. Andrey Breslav mentioned that the team decided to name it after an island just like Java was named after the Indonesian island of Java[7] (though the programming language Java was perhaps named after the coffee.[8]) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN