GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 3 01:03:42 PST 2015


On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I 
>> suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.
>
> It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the 
> change,
> but I am not sure it was worth it.

The rationale was that Nimrod has a fairly negative meaning 
attached to it in American(?) English. I'm not sure if it exists 
in other English dialects.


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