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Oh, I don't dispute the name is logical.

I'm saying in the broader context of programming languages, it's confusing. And that that confusion could have been easily foreseen and avoided... after all, Smalltalk had been using the term "class" for almost 20 years before Haskell appeared and introduced their terminology.

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Haskell uses the words "type", "class", and "kind", and maybe some others too, which are all just simple English words that denote some form of abstract grouping ("form" and "group" I suppose are two other candidates).

At least they're called "typeclasses" and not just "classes". But we're always going to have some overloading of these powerful short ancient words.

I did recently see a suggestion to rename the "typeclass" keyword to "algebra" which would be pretty cool!

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