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It wasn't from "day one". The name Racket is only about 10 years old. It started life as PLT Scheme.

A racket is a kind of scheme.

EDIT: You've edited your post to include more ridiculous assertions.

Python was literally named after Monty Python.

You know what, whatever, I'm not playing this stupid game.

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> A racket is a kind of scheme.

That's hilarious. It only took me 5 years to get.

Guile makes sense now too.

'Gambit Scheme' has a similar style of name.

Gambit Scheme is also a pun on Marc Feeley's surname in Irish -- O Fithcheallaigh -- which means 'chess player'. The name is derived from the ancient Irish board game fidchell, rules unknown, but taken to be akin to chess.

https://www.libraryireland.com/names/of/o-fithcheallaigh.php

That's a bit different. Guy Steele's first Scheme compiler was called RABBIT (it ran fast). The Yale T project created the Orbit compiler. This set off a *bit trend, including Gambit and also Will Clinger's Twobit.

In fact, that's clarified in the very next sentence of the article.

You are right that I removed in sentence because I read to quick but the whole article is about naming. Is it so strange to comment on specific names? I don't think the authors could have done worst.

Synonyms for racket: haphazardness, disagreement, noise, stochasticity, interference, dissonance, dissension, fraudulent scheme, disturbance, randomness, illegitimate enterprise.

You don’t think they could have done worse? I present to you “Brainfuck”.

This is an odd hill you’re choosing to die on.

I mean, the creators of Brainfuck weren't exactly aiming for widespread adoption.

> fraudulent scheme

It's a joke.

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