Comment by michael-lehn

Yes, I know about the earlier ABC. :-) When I originally named mine, it was really just a small language for my own course, so I wasn't particularly worried about name collisions. And the wordplay was simply too tempting: students would use ABC ("A Better C") to write their own compiler, which I jokingly called ABC ("A Bloody Compiler"). The student compiler has since grown into a separate project and is now called "not-abc". Until recently I still thought the language itself was small and obscure enough that there wasn't much risk of confusion. But now that I'm starting to develop it beyond its original teaching purpose, I think the naming issue is a fair point. You're also not the first person to bring it up since I published v0.1. So yes, I may have to come up with a new name. :-) I'm not convinced by LehnABC yet, but suggestions are certainly welcome.