Re: edge
Yep, these kinds of clever little hacks to misguide people. The biggest one I saw was Microsoft naming their up and coming Java clone called "Microsoft COOL" to C# to trick beginners into learning the wrong language.
Of course, C and C++ are open standards so there was no commercial company behind them to defend the name as a trademark.
They kind of did similar to VB6 -> VB.NET. Completely different languages. But a great way to avoid telling the world that they killed Visual Basic.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
