[erlang-questions] Coon - new tool for building Erlang packages, dependency management and deploying Erlang services

[Alexey Lebedeff]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 1:21 PM, Richard O'Keefe <raoknz@REDACTED> wrote:

> Did someone raise an objection to "lotor"?
> Or since the French name for the animal is
> apparently "raton laveur", how about "laveur"?
> Surely there can be few people offended by that!
> Or backtranslate from other European languages
> and use "washbear".  Anyone offended by that?
> Or go back to Powhatan "arahkun" and abbreviate
> to "kun" (pronounced "coon").
> ... <https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-how-many-english-words>
> How hard can it be to find an inoffensive word?
>

It's impossible, as it just have happened with "tp". Think about "Racoons
killed my parents, and now I'm triggered whenever somebody mentions them in
any language - so abusive project name should be changed". With a bit of
"empathic" wistful thinking we can assume that any word in any language is
offensive to somebody.
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