Igor Stasenko wrote:
2008/7/2 Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@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