On Tue, October 29, 2013 1:26 pm, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:58:54PM +0100, Jean-Damien Durand wrote: > >> I have been adviced by daxim@cpan that Jperl (c.f. [1]) is a bad name, >> and it is! May I ask for suggestions; >> >> The project is a JavaScript engine written in perl. >> ... >> Should the name mention explicitely the implementation, or could it be >> stand-alone but /not/ Jperl -; > > Rhino is a Javascript engine written in Java. The name doesn't mention > either Javascript or the language it's written in. Likewise > Spidermonkey, a Javascript engine written in C/C++. > > So there's good precedent for just calling it $animal. > > I like pilot whales and puffins, so I recommend naming it after one of > those. >
I suppose "Luwak" might be a reasonable choice (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak>)... Or Puffin. Puffin is good. -john
