Scott David Daniels:

> Sorry, I was being too cute by half.  If Simula is the fore father
> (4 away) then Smalltalk is half as far (2) away.  Hence the "toofather."
> "Toofather" by analogy with the homophones "fore" and "four" we use the
> homophones "two" and "too".

    We could smear the homophones further and say OCaml is the "nextfather".

    Neil
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