Emanuel Berg <in...@dataswamp.org> wrote: > Curt wrote: > > >> No but I live in the UK and I know the A1, A2, A4, A5, A6 > >> and many others, plus the M1, M4, M5, M6. > > But M5 can be a bolt size and a lot of other things as well, > while creative names may stay "more" unique.
Nonsense. Curt's reply (which you cut when wrongly attributing my text to him!) provides an excellent example of a memorable name 'Penny Lane' - which I for one know only as the name of a song and didn't even know which town the road was in (Abbey Road I do happen to know). All names need context and the M5 as a road is not likely to be mixed up with an M5 bolt or screw. I think the problem with Debian codenames is a poor choice of order for choosing them. Three successive ones with the same initial letter smacks of a deliberate attempt to confuse the <choose your insult here> by the cognoscenti. Some naming plan that stepped through the alphabet would be far more useful and easier to understand IMHO. > But on the other hand there are many Emmas and Camillas, and > people tend to keep track of who is who anyway ... > > Nah, creative, especially cute names are silly, this is an > engineering and to some extent even scientific discipline > after all. Bugs Bunny release names makes it silly compared to > minor.major.patch or whatever other a-personal numbers game > you'd like to play ...
