GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 09:03:44 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> 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.

In Canada (were are about 1/2 way between the Brits + Americans) 
at least it was/is a derogatory term for someone who wasn't too 
bright. I always thought the name was a bit awkward because of 
that, and I should have remembered that they renamed it Nim.