Re: [q-lang-users] An Etymological Note on Pure

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Hi Libor,

> Interestingly, "pure" in Italian means much the same as "sure" in "American", which also makes it a positive name for your new languange :)

Pure thing, then. ;-) Well, there's probably another language where it
means something awful... like what "Q" sounds like in French! (Don't ask.)

I did look up the name in the big programming language database which
goes all the way back to the fifties I think, and it seems that "Pure"
isn't taken yet, so I claim it now! (Maybe I should also register the
www.pure-lang.org domain?)

Thanks for being interested in Pure (and Q). Your Geometric Algebra
project sounds very interesting!

Cheers,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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