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by thinkmoore 4085 days ago
I'm not sure what flame wars you're referring to.

We picked the name Shill because it sounds a lot like shell, but is a bit of an in-joke because it is built on Racket, which is a descendant of Scheme. All three have slightly negative connotations: schemers, racketeers, shills.