On Saturday, January 13, 2018 09:07:58 AM bw wrote: > It is a good point, however have you considered the effect of a visual > association along with a word and a number? For instance, everytime I > think of debian "stretch" i see a purple octopus. For "buster" I see a > yapping little dachshund weiner dog in my mind...
For me, no--why should I go to that trouble, and even if I did, I'd still have the issue of which is the latest, so I'd have to do something like visualize them in some sort of sequence, e.g., a row. > I never think of numbered versions, that is so win3.11ish... Off hand, I can't think of any software that doesn't have numbered version at some level (except some one off type of stuff that never had a revision). Even Debian uses numbered versions--the Toy Story names are just alternate names for the numbered versions. And, if as someone seemed to mention / imply (or I inferred), if (well I forget with way they said it)--if a Toy Story name applies to any sub-version of a numbered version(like wheezy meaning anything between 7.0 and 7.7 (or whatever the highest is), I get a lot more information from the numbers than from the Toy Story name.
