[danellis]

This is true of everything that is named after something, and it wasn't really something people worried about until Go, which is interesting in itself.

[the_af]

I think the internet was less pervasive before, so it mattered less for C, C++, Java, and it matters a lot more now.

So now, if you want to call your language Duck or Car, you better add that "-lang"! It seems to work well enough.