On 20/04/18 02:14, Stephane Ducasse wrote: >> On this matter, when I named my project, "Grafoscopio" I thought in >> something evocative and unique, because of the Spanish words "grafo" >> (graph) and grafía[1][2] (graphy, related with writing like in >> "ortografía" "orthography". After naming it I discover there was a old >> device related with writing and visualization, also called >> Grafoscopio[3][4], but I got good search rankings because of the >> uniqueness of the word[5][6]. > Obviously and well done! > > I like when developers are talking about names: > They use a mac and not a computer, they were nike, lewis and not shoes > and pants.... > > May be we should rename Pharo: programming language. > And Voyage: Layer > And Athens, Cairo: Canvas > > And git: versioning system > > Hibernate? JavaFX?, Graddle?, Travis?, Bintray? > Do you want more > Docker? > > So guys can we focus our energy on positive things. > > Stef > >
Thanks Stephan. I think most of the community is working on positive thinks (like you). Naming preferences and conventions shouldn't be a place for holy wars. And in fact I would like to learn more about Smalltalk Style, for example, how to use prefixes in classes without loosing the "branding" behind names and tools. Cheers, Offray
