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...the way I came up with the name BQN was I thought, ... alright, I'm working on this next APL. What do I call [it?] ... I took took APL and I moved it forward and I got BQN. And I said, well, BQN, that sounds pretty good... [B]ig Questions Notation is what I ended up with. I like it 'cause it suggests that not only you're solving big questions, but you have big questions about the notation, so it's a little tongue in cheek. And I said also, you can pronounce it like bacon, so there's even a food pun like Apple. And after some half hour or an hour of thinking about this, I realized that the letter that comes after L is M, not N. I think it would be much more logical for N to come first, because it's the letter with two humps. BQM is a horrible, horrible name, and so I stuck with BQN.
...the way I came up with the name BQN was I thought, ... alright, I'm working on this next APL. What do I call [it?] ... I took took APL and I moved it forward and I got BQN. And I said, well, BQN, that sounds pretty good... [B]ig Questions Notation is what I ended up with. I like it 'cause it suggests that not only you're solving big questions, but you have big questions about the notation, so it's a little tongue in cheek. And I said also, you can pronounce it like bacon, so there's even a food pun like Apple. And after some half hour or an hour of thinking about this, I realized that the letter that comes after L is M, not N. I think it would be much more logical for N to come first, because it's the letter with two humps. BQM is a horrible, horrible name, and so I stuck with BQN.
<ref>[https://www.arraycast.com/episode-7-transcript The Array Cast, Episode 7]: [[Marshall Lochbaum]], in response to a question starting at the 11:29 mark</ref>
<ref>[[Marshall Lochbaum]]. [https://www.arraycast.com/episode-7-transcript The Array Cast, Episode 7]: in response to a question starting at the 11:29 mark</ref>
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