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<font size=3>And it's alive, so maybe something like Sourdough starter,
or Yoghurt.<br><br>
"It sounds to me like your yoghurt is corrupted. You'll want to
restart from a known good culture and reload your code."<br><br>
At 02:24 PM 2010-03-12, Terry Raymond wrote:<br>
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Well, if you think out of the box a bit, think of it as a sea of
objects,<br>
something organic or “ObjectSoup”.<br>
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However, what we tend to do is borrow a term that conveys how<br>
we think about the image file. This invariably means the term will<br>
be overloaded.<br>
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Terry<br><br>
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mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Eliot Miranda<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 12, 2010 12:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list; Pharo Development;
vwnc NC<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [squeak-dev] image overload<br>
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Hi All,<br>
<br>
I'm sure Im opening an old topic but anyway, as I was
riding the train to work today I saw a shop called "Audio
Images" and it struck me how overloaded the term image is, and how
poor a term for the contents of the image file Smalltalk image is.
What's in the image is a snapshot of... almost the entire system (minus
platform-specific virtual machine and possibly minus sources). So
Smalltalk system file would be a far better term and stsys a more unique
file extension (and according to Wikipedia STS is unused too). I
can imagine that changing form image would be hugely expensive in
documentation terms (docs, websites, workspaces, etc, etc). But I
can at least dream of a better term.<br>
<br>
P.S. I know, wasting one's time worrying about names. Almost
as bad as worrying about colours<br>
<br>
"And the wheel," said the Captain, "What about this wheel
thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project."<br>
"Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a
little difficulty there."<br>
"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you
mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire
Universe!"<br>
The marketing girl soured him with a look.<br>
"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever,
you tell us what colour it should be."</font></blockquote></body>
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<div>aknight@cincom.com</div>
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