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From: hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Re: CHANGE THE NAME YOU XXXXX
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Organization: JHU/APL AI Lab, Hopkins P/T CS Faculty
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:17:42 GMT
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In article <3sn0bf$qhs@camelot.ccs.neu.edu> 
futrelle@ccs.neu.edu (Robert Futrelle) writes:
[...]
>So the step from Dynamic Language to Dylan is perfectly reasonable.

Agreed. However, it seems very highly probable that when folks were
hunting around for an acronym, the *real* reason for the choice was
the fact that "Dylan" was already a "word" (due to the connection to
the singer (Bob) and/or philosopher (Thomas)). Dynla, Dyla, OODYL,
etc. were not.
					- Marty
(proclaim '(inline skates))
