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[Robby Findler <robby AT eecs.northwestern.edu>]

I am reluctant to post here but I decided that I might have something of value to share. I am also from a community that had a radical name change, and indeed one that came with a lot more emotional community-related baggage than the name change proposed here. The result is that the developer side of the racket community has experienced significant growth; it was like removing shackles from our legs. I doubt that'd happen here (as the baggage removal, more than the new name, may be what spurred the growth), but I offer that as a data point that changing a well-established language's name isn't a non-starter. It wasn't even that hard (making cons-pairs immutable was a much easier sell to everyone and also a much more painful change).

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Since I'm posting, I figured I might as well offer my thoughts on the main body of thread. For context, I'm not deep in the Coq community by any means (sum total from me: I wrote one paper that used Coq in a deep way and I taught from Benjamin et al's book twice, all quite some time ago). And, for the record, I am not female (extremely so, in my own estimation). I am also deeply involved in a language community that also enjoys a bit of spicy word play in language names. All that said to help you give this comment the respect it deserves (perhaps none):

The word "cock" is vile. Repulsive. Disgusting.

I would also like to add that taking the silhouette of an iconic rooster and coloring it the same color as my penis is hardly an accident in this context. Seeing a penis in the logo is not a reason to see one's doctor. (Duh.) And "coq au vin" being acceptable (indeed, the connection not even really noticed) is also a complete non-argument, at least in this anglophone's ear.

Robby