Rafael Maia posts:
first R, now Julia… are programmers trying on purpose to come up with names for their languages that make it hard to google for info? 😛
I don’t know that two cases prove that programmers are responsible for all the semantic confusion in the world.
A search for FORTRAN produces FORTRAN Formula Translation/Translator.
But compare COBOL:
COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language
COBOL Completely Obsolete Business-Oriented Language 🙂
COBOL Completely Over and Beyond Obvious Logic 🙂
COBOL Compiles Only By Odd Luck 🙂
COBOL Completely Obsolete Burdensome Old Language 🙂
May be something to programmers peeing in the semantic pool.
On the other hand, there are examples prior to programming of semantic overloading of strings.
Here is an interesting question:
Is a string overloaded, semantically speaking, when used or read?
Does your answer impact how you would build a search engine? Why/why not?