-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev- bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:26 PM To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] The Primitive: I am not a number- I am a named prim!- SqueakPeople article
2008/7/2 Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.com:
My own OT:
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 :)
Well, how about "Tapestry". It is made of threads and is not boring.
There can be many criteria how to pick a name: ones care that name should sell itself, others want to put meaning in it (to conform idea). I personally prefer names which simply sound good. :)
Terry
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