I favor the idea of picking a strong, evocative word and just using that. Pick a city, a sport team, the name of a piece of art ... just something bold and memorable. If your tool is good, people will associate it properly.
When I'm naming projects, I get a white board and just start writing down names as fast as I can think of them. Once I've filled the board, there's usually an obvious winner. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > Among the last interesting proposals, some seem not possible to follow, > because the names are already used : > > corona : sounded good, but already used (and it's even an eclipse > subproject) > Eclisp: already used by a lisp project for eclipse > clipse: not really used, but very closed to eclipse > > > So far, we still have : > enclave > pinhole > REPtiLe > EclipseClojure (along the lines of VimClojure) > Eclair > conjclipse (?) > Troy (!?!) > Ectoplasm (!?!) > cljdt (?) > eclj (?) > > I guess this ml will quickly get tired of helping the (currently named) > clojure-dev team choose a new name, but for those not yet tired of this, > please (re-)react :-) > > 2009/6/24 Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com> > > >> eclisp :) >> >> On 24/06/2009, at 11:05 AM, Matthew Erker wrote: >> >> > >> > I second that vote. >> > (Though I prefer Clipse, which is somewhat taken.) >> > >> > >> > On Jun 23, 6:47 pm, Rayne <disciplera...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I vote Corona. >> > >> > > >> >> Antony Blakey >> ------------- >> CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd >> Ph: 0438 840 787 >> >> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to >> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the >> other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious >> deficiencies. >> -- C. A. R. Hoare >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry Director of Open Source Technology at Formos --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---