All: I understand that when a post like this shows up, everyone's first reflex (including mine) is to react to the name. However, reflexive reactions like that tend to be shallow and to lead to boring, generic discussion. Here we're going for reflective discussion, not reflexive—which takes longer but ends up being less predictable and therefore more interesting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
The idea here is to let the quickest, shallowest reactions go, and wait for the more interesting ones to show up. With a post like this one, that would mean focusing on the details of the language. It's not that names are irrelevant, but we shouldn't focus on the surface at the expense of the depth—doing that leads to exciting-in-the-short-run, but boring-in-the-long-run results.
The idea here is to let the quickest, shallowest reactions go, and wait for the more interesting ones to show up. With a post like this one, that would mean focusing on the details of the language. It's not that names are irrelevant, but we shouldn't focus on the surface at the expense of the depth—doing that leads to exciting-in-the-short-run, but boring-in-the-long-run results.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html