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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The creator of MySQL, MaxDB and MariaDB named them after his children My, Max and Maria, so why not

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

after his children My

I thought you were kidding, but his daughter is actually named "My".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It helps that it's a name in another language (Finnish), where “my” isn't a word, at all.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Hi, it's me, Mongo.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Here I was thinking the creators of MySQL learned from online tutorials and thought classes needed to start with "My" if they weren't in the standard library.