From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T22:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: DHH vs. WHY style

On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Bob Showalter wrote:

> On 4/25/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>> To clarify here is my specific scenario. I've narrowed it down, more-
>> or-less, to these Whyish vs. DHHish possibilities:
>>
>>   Aces        Facets/CORE
>>   Jacks       Facets/BASE
>>   Tapestry    Facets/AOP
>>   Comrade     Facets/CLI
>>   Fileside    Facets/FS
>>   Annote      Facets/ANN
>
> After thinking about this for about 3 seconds, I like the whimsical
> names. _why is cool.

It has been interesting hearing everyone say that the right side is  
so much more helpful.  I have heard Facets is a collection of  
extensions and I'll assume CORE means extensions to Ruby's core, so  
maybe I get the first one.  The second one means nothing to me though.

I also don't think whimsical names have to be unhelpful.  When I  
ported File::ReadBackwards from Perl, I named my version Elif.  I  
guess you have to "get that" before it helps, but I had to know what  
Facets was to even make guesses about the more helpful names.  Seems  
pretty comparable to me.

So, I guess I'm a rebel:  I like cool names.

James Edward Gray II