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I think complaing about author's and project's name is out of place.


I'm not complaining, your name choices aren't grievances of mine. I couldn't care less about the name of a stranger on the internet.

I'm informing you that they're objectively going to lower your chance of success. Considering that it is "impolite" to tell that to someone, it becomes uncommon knowledge. Fortunately, I'm not a polite person.

For what it's worth, if I had any scientific evidence that having an Anime avatar on Github lowered your chances of success, I would tell you that as well.

I will leave you with this quote by Donald Knuth:

"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."


The name is just spelled like [ˈevia]. You know, we don't choose names ourselves. I feel comfortable with Krzysztof Szewczyk, but if it's risky for you, nothing stops you from calling me somewhat different.

This avatar wasn't taken from anime. It's drawing of Alexios Komnenos.


> The name is just spelled like [ˈevia].

I don't understand what that means.

> You know, we don't choose names ourselves.

Who is this "we" people? What makes you so sure you belong to them, bound by their arcane rules?

> I feel comfortable with Krzysztof Szewczyk, but if it's risky for you, nothing stops you from calling me somewhat different.

Thanks, Chris.

> This avatar wasn't taken from anime.

It looks like anime, therefore it is anime, for all practical purposes.

> It's drawing of Alexios Komnenos.

Let's just say I have no idea what Anime Alexios is supposed to communicate to me.



You mean it is pronounced like [ˈevia] in an alphabet that I don't understand and will not learn? See, that's why the name is bad. Why make people jump through pointless extra hoops? That's not UNIX-like at all!


Well, I've seen sometimes bizzare progarmming language names with spelling explaination.

But to be honest, I don't care how my language will be called. I'm not crazy about the correctness of the pronunciation of my name too.




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