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by wormius 752 days ago
There's an Amber Smalltalk and Amber Bash Scripting Language and this. I just discovered these literally the past week.

"Namespace collisions" in the real world get my goat in general, but in this case, I'm about to have a heart attack from the discovery of all 3 in one week.

I get why for all cases : amber=electron/ήλεκτρο in Ancient Greek.* But still.

* One of my favorite albums is Amber by Autechre, and where I learned this nugget (also - it's a pile of Sand Dunes on the cover, so silicon). Clever boys.