I have mentioned that in another forum the issue of the naming of the language was raised. Wolfram actually had a competition of sorts, but ultimately his ego won, and he just named it Wolfram.
Here's what I wrote.. There are so many wonderful ideas from Stephen, and he explains how this language is so superior to any mere programming language -- it is more like natural language and has so so many features (though, wouldn't the language be stripped of the thousands of Mathematica library routines?) Oh also a name should naturally honor Stephen Himself, the Inventor, copyright holder, and owner of the world's best computer programming language. What features could be emphasized in a name? Perhaps a short list of good candidates for acronym initials.... Applications Expressions, Evaluation Graphics Functions, Forms Objects, Rules, Recursion Transformations, Trees AEGFORT has the letters alphabetically. GREATFO FORGETA TAFORGE ROGFATE FORTAGE and my favorite, one which combines all these features, and expresses the essence of what that language means to Stephen Wolfram and simultaneously reflects what it looks like to programming language experts... EGOFART -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
