Rename the language

[masak]

Please take the following with a appropriate grain of salt.

I'm thinking if this language ever ended up in a book, then its current name would be at best a bit unfortunate, and at worst a legal problem.

I haven't decided to rename it yet. If I did, I don't really know what we'd call it. Open to suggestions and, at this point, bikeshedding. 🚲 🖌️

Connotations that we'd like to evoke: smallness, orthogonality, ease of use/understanding, can consume itself.

Currently I'm leaning towards the name Simplex. In geometry, it's a simplest possible polytope such as a triangle or tetrahedron. It's the opposite of "complex". The synonyms are nice, too. A quick search doesn't reveal another programming language with this name. (However, there exists an algorithm with that name.)

[masak]

Closing this issue as this is not currently a concern.

[masak]

I'm warming up to Alma, short for "Algoloid with Macros".

The name seems to be available, though (I just found out) there's an Alma-0 already.

[masak]

I also toyed with naming it either Grace or Hopper (in honor of the inventor of the compiler) or even Hop (in honor also of beer). But of course those three are taken already, even if it seems to be for fairly small initiatives.

[masak]

Here's another thing called Alma: http://www.alma-project.eu/ — I suspect that's fine, though.

[FCO]

In portuguese alma means soul

[masak]

Oh, so it does. Seems to be from Latin anima.

[masak]

I made a rough sketch of Alma's logotype. It gets its inspiration from a certain butterfly, while still trying to be its own thing.

Another thing it might be too close to is this book cover, which would be unfortunate, I guess. The solution might be to make Alma's logotype even more abstract.

Might also adopt this logotype for 007 pre-rename, even though the connection isn't really there between name and logotype.

[masak]

Also symbolic, I realized, that while Camelia has a big yellow smiling face with big eyes in the middle, Alma's logotype has just negative space, just like we aim to have "no core", but instead just a meta-circular definition of the language.

[masak]

Reopening. It's happening.

I'd like for this to happen fast. As long as we accept a PR that does all the renaming — nice and slow — we also rename the repo and close this issue.