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[–] 3 points 6 months ago

Another example is Coq, the interactive theorem prover, named after CoC, an abbreviation for calculus constructions, the type theory on which Coq is based, and the co-creator Thierry Coquand in whose native language (French) coq has no sexual connotation and is simply the word for rooster (male chicken).

I have just now seen on Wikipedia to gather this information that it was renamed to Rocq last year after 41 years.

https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq/wiki/Alternative-names

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