Hi All,<div><br></div><div> 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>P.S. I know, wasting one's time worrying about names. Almost as bad as worrying about colours</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">"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."</span></div>