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jhuckestein
Dear Language authors, please stop using single-letter names or generic terms for programming languages. It messes with the Google.
marbu
Duckduckgo seems to offer reasonable results: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=L. While it doesn't solve this problem entirely, it's a good starting point.
JulianMorrison
J has an excuse. They only use identifiers longer than 1 letter because ASCII lacks for APL symbols.
bhickey
This name collision is even worse than you suggest. Lindenmayer systems (L-systems) were invented back in the 60s and have been called L-systems for years.
joshuafcole
Actually, I followed the link because I thought this was referring to a programming language derived from them.
cschmidt
Indeed, that's what I thought of. The problem for R is so bad, people have created special purpose search engines like www.rseek.org .
fexl
Looks a bit like my Fexl (http://fexl.com/code), though Fexl has a much smaller grammar and footprint. I'm not sure I have all the "capability" and "distributed" stuff though, and I definitely don't have threads, much preferring "fork" (i.e., O.S. level blocking system calls with timeouts are my friends).

(Incidentally, GA Tech is my alma mater.)