[xondono]

I can’t think a worse name for a programming language that of an actual language.

[627467]

> The language is named after Pierre Catala, a professor of law who pionneered the French legaltech by creating a computer database of law cases, Juris-Data.

[627467]

By the way: catala is latin spelling of bengali name for a fish as well.

[dmurray]

The human language is called Catalan in English and català in Catalan.

[xondono]

As a catalan myself I’m well aware of the spelling, but good luck trying to explain that to a search engine.

I get regular hits while looking up Rust just because there’s a game with the same name.

[csb6]

Insightful comment that really adds something to the conversation. Thank you!