Coq theorem prover is now called Rocq

https://rocq-prover.org/about

21•rwmj•2d ago

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nz•1h ago

It's good to see that they have chosen a name that has a much more obvious and less confusing spelling.

booleandilemma•1h ago

Calling it rocq makes it seem harder.

wk_end•1h ago

They made this change a couple of years back, didn’t they?

miningape•1h ago

I prefer the old name, it was much more memorable because it's funny.

"Yeah I'm playing with my Coq to try and get it working again"

hansvm•1h ago

standup> My coq experiments are promising, but it feels a little harder than it should be, and I'm worried it'll be too slow to deliver without some training and long practice sessions.

mcluck•1h ago

Thank goodness. It's been impossible to talk about Coq to people who don't already know what it is.

mcdonje•1h ago

While some may lament the departure of the phallus bird, nobody can be sad about the arrival of the giant fierce mythical bird.

gnabgib•1h ago

(2022) Previous discussions

(35 points, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779480

(61 points, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41180007

fargle•1h ago

why did they find the need to rename this? Am i missing something?

LandR•1h ago

The name sounded like Cock.

p-e-w•1h ago

Because U.S. English is everything, and people want it that way, and any concern about cultural imperialism that would immediately be brought up in any other context magically doesn’t apply when Americans could possibly be offended. Everyone else has to adapt, no matter their mother tongue.

Meanwhile the world’s most common VCS’s name is literally an abuse (not a misspelling of one), but only outside the US so nobody cares.

llbbdd•1h ago

Practically speaking there's no reason not to centralize on the particulars of one language while the rest are in the increasingly accelerated process of dying out. Language barriers help nobody. Though it is a shame to rename this, the world needs more whimsy and penises are funny.

tom_•1h ago

The linked community survey suggests that a plurality of votes were in favour, which would explain it: https://discourse.rocq-prover.org/t/coq-community-survey-202...

fooker•1h ago

Just in time for LEAN to have made it almost completely obsolete.

tptacek•1h ago

The notoriety of Coq's name is, by a long, long way, the most embarrassing message board trope on HN. For years, you couldn't run a story about Coq --- a genuinely interesting and important piece of software --- on the front page without attracting sophomoric comments about a (bad) English transliteration? is that the word? of the name.

So like 4 years ago they renamed it, literally for this reason, which is embarrassing all on its own, and that's still not enough to get HN to stop talking about it.

I rarely do this, because the moderators really don't want anybody doing it, but I'll say out loud this time: I flagged this post. Just leave them alone.

sillysaurusx•1h ago

Party pooper. We have so few opportunities to be silly on HN. Plus it’s good advertisement for what would otherwise be an obscure piece of software. You can’t deny it would be much less known.

I’m not saying it was a good idea, just an oddity. There was no need to curb stomp it with a public declaration of nuisance.

Oh well. Hey, thanks for the whiskey slap. I still think about it fondly.

smnrchrds•1h ago

As a non-anglophone myself, I hate the fact that we have given one language so much power to dictate how every other country and language should name things. You will never find an American company changing the name of their product in the US because it sounds naughty in French. Yet here we are, a group of francophones feeling pressure to change their product's name for anglophones' sake.

adw•1h ago

The author knew fine that it was a knob joke (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26743882). In this specific case, play stupid games, get stupid prizes; no-one is asking Le Coq Sportif to rebrand or your local bistro to stop serving coq au vin.

ahartmetz•1h ago

It used to be that you could write Coq in Kant (KDE's Kate editor before it was renamed for... similar reasons - though much much earlier / quicker).

andreweggleston•1h ago

And now instead of being confused for a bad word, it gets confused with https://www.roc-lang.org/

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