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Orion Henry
The term is merger of "Hero" and "Haiku". The Japanese theme is a nod to Matz for creating Ruby. (English)
The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins, Heroku Co-founder and former CTO (The Changelog #513) (English)
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Adam Wiggins
the name came from a combination of the qualities that we wanted to bring across… And it was sort of a portmanteau or some kind of a mashing together of "heroic" and "haiku". And haiku, again, reflected Ruby’s Japanese origins, the fact that it was a very succinct language, very elegant, or from our perspective elegant, beautiful language, in the sense of how it looks on page, so to speak. And then the heroic side - this has often been misinterpreted; there was so many articles on “Heroku’s trying to be a hero”, or something of that nature. But our view is we want to make a product that makes you a hero. (English)
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heroku · GitHub Topics · GitHub (English)
25 July 2021
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