[squeak-dev] Name change: Mushroom ( was Re: evolutions of squeakelib & crypto)

Jecel Assumpcao Jr. jecel at merlintec.com
Tue Dec 8 00:26:52 UTC 2015


Robert Withers wrote:
> Ben, Huw, Todd and Sven, thank you all for your feedback!  I suppose I 
> could call the project "CryptOCaps" but for some reason I glommed onto 
> mushroom as the name. Not grandiose and it is somewhat descriptive...a 
> network of secure sessions, each one a mushroom. Ceps are highly valued. 
> We can tag it for the catalog.

Though pretty old, the Mushroom Smalltalk computer was very well known
at one time:

http://www.wolczko.com/mushroom/

Though one is a hardware project and yours is software, there is still
the potential for some confusion.

-- Jecel



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