On Sunday 14 May 2006 08:57, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2006, Ido Kanner wrote: > > Nicholas Wirth once said that a language requires good name (I don't > > recall the exact quote), without a good name the language will fail. > > In that case he did a poor PR job, obviously. > > > Personally, I belive that we need to kill the name "Pascal" because many > > people does not respect that language (I still do not understand why). > > It _IS_ pascal, and we had better be proud of it ! > If _WE_ are not proud of it, who will be ? > > Really, this is the world upside down !! > Why would the smart kneel for the stupid ?? > > (Yes, being rethorical here... not accusing anyone of anything) > > Michael. I agree! There is nothing wrong with any of the names. I truly doubt anyone is offended by 'Pascal" or 'Lazarus'. If it becomes one of the best development environments available then I bet (even if the name was offensive) programmers would use it.
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