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I thought it was from this usage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal

basically going as far as possible in the sequence C, C++, ...



Not to be too pedantic, but little omega is not the first uncountable ordinal (it is countable by definition), it is the first infinite one.


You know what, you're right (and if I may add, on both counts ;-).

The wikipedia page I referenced, loosely summarized, is referring to an ordinal number with the cardinality aleph-1. The plain omega that I should have referenced has cardinality aleph-0.

Unfortunately, the ordinal I wanted does not have its own wikipedia page. WTF? Merely countable is not notable enough?


Some research project about a new language and the top comments are about how weird its name is and how the character looks like a butt? I'm speechless.


Unfortunately, it looks precisely like an ASCII ass.


> Unfortunately, it looks precisely like an ASCII ass.

In my font, it's wide enough to be a Unicode ass.


Reddit-style thread?


You should start your sequence with C--, another popular language in the C family.




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