[skrebbel]

Surely you must mean,

Note: it’s about the visual programming language (2009) and not about the band (1989) or the package manager (2014.)

:)

(full geek mode enabled: the band name is even spelled identically, including the bang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap! - Given that Jens Mönig, like the band, is German, here's hoping that the name is a tribute)

[DonHopkins]

There's actually a Snap! disambiguation page on Wikipedia, that includes the Snap! German Eurodance group, as well as the Snap! (album), greatest hits album of The Jam, the Snap! programming language, and SNAP!, a Canadian English-language arts magazine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(disambiguation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap%21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP%21

I think the Object Oriented version of Snap! should be called "Snap! Snap!" instead of "Snap!++".

Great minds snap alike! (That man's nuts: grab 'em! Woo hoo!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xmQDpYGYo&t=1m38s

[bharvey]

I'm afraid the exclamation point was my doing, not Jens's. I was scared of how many other things were called "snap," including the US welfare program that used to be food stamps, and was hoping to stand out from them. Didn't work; I didn't realize that search engines pretty much ignore punctuation.

We were very happy with the name BYOB, but we had a few teachers tell us very insistently that they could never use a language called that with kids. Those of you who live in civilized countries can't appreciate Americans' lack of a sense of humor. So we were looking for a reasonably short name for which the ___.berkeley.edu domain was available, and Snap was what we found.

[skrebbel]

I feel your pain, I once made a PHP template engine called Farty and needless to say, it didn't take off :-)

That said, I feel a bit dumb right now, but can you (or anyone, really) elaborate what's funny and/or sensitive about the name BYOB? I really can't figure it out. It seems like just an abbreviation to me.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> That said, I feel a bit dumb right now, but can you (or anyone, really) elaborate what's funny and/or sensitive about the name BYOB? I really can't figure it out. It seems like just an abbreviation to me.

Bring your own beer, and since alcohol is Evil™ anywhere even remotely associated with children...