[Chicken-users] Why is it called Chicken?
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
Re: [Chicken-users] Why is it called Chicken?
Hi Daniel, There's an interview with Felixhttp://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 ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
Re: [Chicken-users] Why is it called Chicken?
Heh. That's great. And thanks for the link. Cheers, Daniel. On 4 March 2014 15:42, Kristian Lein-Mathisen kristianl...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Daniel, There's an interview with Felixhttp://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 -- 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
