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by glenda 1660 days ago
Yes things like Windows, Racket, Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Android… these are already words that existed however there is clearly room to share meaning based on context. When you’re taking about lisp and you mention “chicken” it’s clear you’re not talking about the animal.

I am honestly surprised how many people in HN comments have this same complaint over and over again. Not everything needs to be directly searchable by name only.
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lovelyviking 1659 days ago
Sure, it's just the number of them is getting bigger. So what do you think about mentioned idea of prefix-Name format in descriptions?
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shakna 1659 days ago
Search engines will already ignore the hyphenation, and humans have the context to note that the two things are related. Exactly what information are you attempting to add by this?
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lovelyviking 1659 days ago
My idea is mostly to avoid search engine usage or reduce the number of those searches.

The idea is to provide some explanation about the Name instead of just using the Name. When you track many domains reading BazunaGuanga is harder then lisp-dialect-BazunaGuanga or at least lisp-BazunaGuanga

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shakna 1659 days ago
That's far less information than the first line of clicking the link gives, and would actually cause all kinds of strife if they followed that naming convention.

lisp-BazunaGuanga would quickly learn that "Lisp" has a pretty vocal crowd that think that it either only means "Common Lisp" or a Lisp2, and take quite a decent amount of offense to any Scheme being called a Lisp.

And scheme-BazunaGuanga would have people complaining that the name is misleading, because they were expecting it to be about the Bazuna Scheme, which is a name clash with some esoteric financial strategy, or expected it to be about Guanga Bazuna's algorithm, etc.

On the other hand, as well as a title we have a link, like most aggregators, and the first line you're giving after clicking it is:

> A small and portable Scheme implementation that supports closures, tail calls, first-class continuations, a REPL and AOT and incremental compilers.

I don't need to search anything to know that this is a programming language, implementing a standard, which has a feature list. Even if I had never encountered Scheme before.

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