From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T04:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [SemiOT] Concerning package names

SER wrote:
> Interesting topic.
> 
> What about projects that will also appear in Freshmeat?  Should each
> project have two different names -- one for RAA and one for Freshmeat?
> Exactly how is this is going to be less confusing?
> 
> That said, Matz has expressed a dislike of names that have "Ruby" in
> them, or even "R", if the "R" stands for Ruby.
> 
> There's a group of people who believe that projects should be entirely
> non-descriptive.  Personally, I'm going to start randomly generating
> names for my projects; that'll make browsing the RAA *really* fun.

Wouldn't it though? :)

Back in the 80s, there was some kind of "namer" software that would
query you for keywords and adjectives and such; it would then piece
together prefixes and suffixes and fragments and generate random
names such as "OctaMind" for you to consider.

Very amusing idea, and it got good reviews. I wonder how many
commercial products actually got named this way?

Hal