Howdy, On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> "Guido, compile my-file.scm." > > Is the pun[*] intended? :-) OK, point taken. Too bad though! I have another proposal, but first I want to elaborate on why I think guile-tools is a silly name. First of all it's not a good noun. I don't know how to capitalize it, for example. Guile-Tools ? Too camel-casey. Guile-tools ? It's long and slanted, like a boat launching ramp. guile-tools ? But then it doesn't look like the start of a sentence. Also, how do you feel when you say "guile-tools compile foo.scm" ? I kinda feel like a tool! Its clunkiness makes me feel clunky. Not good! These difficulties have real repercussions. A clunky name leads us to avoid mentioning the thing, which isn't good either for the tool itself or for peoples' awareness of the tool. Names are important, is what I'm saying. So! My new proposal is "guild". guild update guild compile foo.scm guild install fmt Guild has the usual advantages of being short and having a name that shares structure with Guile. Of course there is the disadvantage that it's only one character away, and my fingers are programmed to type "e" after "guil", so there would be some retraining. But that doesn't mention the real advantage of "guild", which is how you feel when you type it or tell it to someone: that you pertain to a secret society of wizards! Who wouldn't want to pertain to such a guild? I feel awesomer just for having typed it. Also if the main purpose of the tool will be, besides compilation, interaction with our CPAN, then it really will be about a collective of people producing spel(l)s (cf. Barski's "Casting SPELs with Lisp"). Sweet! What do folks think about this harebrained idea? Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
