On Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:52:29 +0100 Christopher Harrison via Chicken-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> With thanks to the other maintainers and contributors, C6 is now > distributed on Nixpkgs -- along with, so far, 277 eggs -- for > x86_64-linux, aarch64-linux, i686-linux and aarch64-darwin. Thanks, Christopher and to everyone involved in this! > One unrelated question that came up in a conversation with my > colleagues: Why the name "Chicken"? I like it, but I'm curious :) >From https://spin.atomicobject.com/chicken-scheme-spock-part-2/ : I [Felix] 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. Also, there is the old philosophical question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? This applies to CHICKEN, too. The compiler is written in Scheme, so you need CHICKEN in order to compile CHICKEN. All the best. Mario -- https://parenteses.org/mario
