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Comment by sanxiyn | Hacker News Reader

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

Get used to it. After 40+ years in this industry, every single 2,3 and 4 letter acronyms are already used by Something else.

But it's annoying when a popular name is used for new projects. Like elm.

And this needs to be 2, 3, or 4 letter acronym because?

Or "Outer Planet Alliance"

aha! Someone likes the expanse!

And a race of factory workers at a certain chocolate factory that requires golden tickets for admission.

Those are umpa lumpas.

> umpa lumpas

  s/u/oo/g

also with every German grandpa

Or Dutch.

It also conflicts with the Dutch word for grandfather: https://translate.google.com/#nl/en/opa

Also conflicts with Oracle Policy Automation.

And the Outer Planets Alliance, lol.

yep. for the briefest moment i thought this was oracle's OPA being open-sourced.