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I would love to see a running list of languages named like this. There are many, but I guess I can’t find or remember them since they’re all named so generically. Processing is the only other one I can think of at the moment.

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"Basic" might be another example.

edit: from Wikipedia's list of languages I found the following:

"Action!", "Basic", "BLISS", "Cool", "Hack", "Pure", "SMALL". Some of them are acronyms/retronyms. Special mentions: Smalltalk and High level shader language (HLSL).

Well I mean... Go, D, Rust, Monkey, and so on. In the case of Rust I sometimes get more results about Rust the game than I do Rust the language.

I think they mean languages named pretentiously not languages whose name is reused. Not many things (non-programming included) are named after putting letters into a blender and seeing what comes out.

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