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by Ninn 2243 days ago
Gemini is such a widely used name for systems. I wish people would stop reusing it, in place of finding new unique names.
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of course, someone on HN has to make this ultimate bike-shed comment about a project's name.
Last time I tried to grouch that grouch someone pointed out how the the ratio of amibiguously-named projects to all projects approaches unity. Try it yourself, it's fun:

C

Go

Swift

Java

Python

Haskell (named for a guy)

Curry (also named for that guy)

Icon

Self

Lisp

...you can go on aaaaaall day...

Eiffel

Octave

Factor

Joy

Julia

R

...