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I used to think "git" was the worst name in software, but now I have revised my opinion.

I'm not gonna defend git, but it's pretty damn hard to google for libraries or code written in Io.

Okay, there are different kinds of badness - along the Io lines, I remember the photo gallery perl program called "web album". Couldn't google it for love or money.

The problem with git is that it is the kind of word that seems to (unjustly) infantilise hackers as far as management is concerned.

But hemlock is definitely worse. If you ever had to sit through a gruesome description of Socrate's death, you'd understand my reaction. My Pavlovian response is "Mmmm Hemlock, excruciatingly painful killer of goodness and smartness".

You think that's bad ... try search for help for R ;)

that's really just google's fault for having such weak tech. Not everything in the world is /[a-z0-9]{3,}/

And hemlock.com is a printing co. :/

Please don't make XMPP be the next buzz word :(

Hemlock is the Emacs clone built into CMUCL; where I spent the most pleasant times in my 5 years of extended hack-mode ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_(editor)

(ed 'foo) ahhh, they don't make 'em like they used to.

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