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  Why Hy? Hy (or “Hylang” for long; named after the insect order Hymenoptera, since Paul Tagliamonte was studying swarm behavior when he created the language)
I'm spending my HN karma to make this petty comment that if the first sentence of your docs immediately opens up with the story of how you named your project, I instantly don't want to use it or read any more.

It's like when you open a cooking recipe on a website and you get the author's entire life story



I’m going to follow up with a slightly more pertinent question: Why use a cuttlefish as the logo when the language is named after another animal?

Missed opportunity to spread the knlowledge about the Hymenopteras…


No expert, but the shape of the head of the cuttlefish (as drawn) somewhat suggests a pair of parentheses.


This was a trend in the early 2010s on a lot of Clojure projects




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