On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 18:26 +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:58:54PM +0100, Jean-Damien Durand wrote:
> Rhino is a Javascript engine written in Java. The name doesn't mention > either Javascript or the language it's written in. Likewise > Spidermonkey, a Javascript engine written in C/C++. > > So there's good precedent for just calling it $animal. The Java world has a nasty habit of using names that tell you absolutely nothing about what the program or package does.