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Yes, fortunately Ruby, Python, Julia, Java, Delphi, Elixir, Lisp, Forth, Groovy, and Rust are all unique words with no other meaning.

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Oh hey everyone, sarcasm! You don't see a lot of that every day. ;-P

And Elm, Swift, Logo, Pascal and Haskell and Ada, Icon and Self, Opal and Occam and Maple...

There's a lot of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

If all your friends name their projects after something and then jump off a bridge, it's still a dumb thing to do.

Yes, sarcasm but, much like jumping off bridges recreationally, naming programming things after existing words is an old practice. Lisp is 60 years old. Complaining about Celery and Centrifuge seems as disingenuous as sarcasm. We can agree on Go though. Some words are simply too common.

Well met. And you're right, the practice is older than I said (and not even confined to computer stuff for that matter.) I just feel like I've seen a rash of generically-named projects recently and that's why I went off when I saw this one. (I've also been on imgur this last week and I think it's affecting my communication style.)

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