[tropo]

This is a terrible name conflict.

Bon, along with New B, was an immediate ancestor to C. The history gets more confusing with another Bon showing up half a century later.

Bon was created for Multics by Ken Thompson. His wife Bonnie, like this other person's mother, was the inspiration for the name.

Ken Thompson has naming priority.

[chrislopez]

Ken Thompson is a person, plain and simple. He is not a god. Naming priority doesn't matter when most programmers haven't heard of old Bon. No one is going to think that new Bon is old Bon if no one knows about old Bon. Maybe there will confusion looking at the history if new Bon takes off, but when is there not in computer science? A simple footnote could suffice to avoid confusion.