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by IncreasePosts 867 days ago
It wouldn't fly, but I bet people would just obscure their true intent with a plausible story - "I wanted to make a language more beautiful than Ada, so I called it 'Linda', which means beautiful in Spanish"
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pimlottc 867 days ago
I would imagine something like this happened for Linda itself, since I assume the author didn’t namedrop a porn actress in their PhD dissertation.
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zilti 867 days ago
Your made-up story even wouldn't fly either nowadays.
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