Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 2008/7/2 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>> BTW, did you see my comment about renaming Hydra?  I think "String" is a
>> much better name. Strings are composed of threads.  Smalltalk comes from
>> Alan Kay's distaste for the kinds of names people were using for programming
>> languages in the 60's & 70's, names like Zeus and Thor.  Hence Smalltalk.
>>  Hydra is another mythic name.  Cog is a small element in a larger whole
>> (and a cool advert by Honda).  Anyway, think it over...
>>
> 
> Naming things is not my best talent. :) A name "Hydra" is not really
> my idea (originally it came from Andreas colleague afaik).
> I can say that i like it: Hydra has many heads. But if you find it too
> pretentious, hmm. A "String" is directly opposite to it.. Its too
> plain boring & gray :)

My alternative to Hydra would be "Couscous" [1] - lots of little things 
and you can have some decent Smalltalk with it ;-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscous

Cheers,
   - Andreas