I am honestly surprised how many people in HN comments have this same complaint over and over again. Not everything needs to be directly searchable by name only.
I am honestly surprised how many people in HN comments have this same complaint over and over again. Not everything needs to be directly searchable by name only.
The idea is to provide some explanation about the Name instead of just using the Name. When you track many domains reading BazunaGuanga is harder then lisp-dialect-BazunaGuanga or at least lisp-BazunaGuanga
lisp-BazunaGuanga would quickly learn that "Lisp" has a pretty vocal crowd that think that it either only means "Common Lisp" or a Lisp2, and take quite a decent amount of offense to any Scheme being called a Lisp.
And scheme-BazunaGuanga would have people complaining that the name is misleading, because they were expecting it to be about the Bazuna Scheme, which is a name clash with some esoteric financial strategy, or expected it to be about Guanga Bazuna's algorithm, etc.
On the other hand, as well as a title we have a link, like most aggregators, and the first line you're giving after clicking it is:
> A small and portable Scheme implementation that supports closures, tail calls, first-class continuations, a REPL and AOT and incremental compilers.
I don't need to search anything to know that this is a programming language, implementing a standard, which has a feature list. Even if I had never encountered Scheme before.