Hi Daniel, There's an interview with Felix<http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-1/>that might answer your question:
*One last question: What inspired the names CHICKEN and SPOCK? Do they mean > anything, aside from the bird and the well-known Star Trek character?* > > That question always comes up, sooner or later. ;-) > > I had a plastic toy of Feathers McGraw on my desk, the evil penguin > (disguised as a chicken!) from the Wallace and Gromit movie, “The Wrong > Trousers.” Looking for a preliminary working title for the compiler, I used > the first thing that came to my mind that day. I’m somewhat superstitious > about names for software projects, and things were progressing well, so I > didn’t dare to change the name. > K. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Daniel Carrera <dcarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps a silly question, but I'm curious. Why is Chicken Scheme called > Chicken? > > Cheers, > Daniel. > -- > When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase > that means it's not fun to do. > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users > >
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