From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-07-10T11:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: LOCat v0.1.0 released



On Jul 9, 2:27 pm, Mike Bethany <mikbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You should never use an abbreviation/acronym in a product name without at
> least a simple definition of what it means in your description.
>
> And you *really* should not use the term to define the term, for instance:
>
> "LOCat is a fancy LOC code analysis too."
>
> If you had no idea what LOC means; after reading that description you still
> would have no idea. Worst of all someone might actually know the
> abbreviation/acronym but it doesn't register when they read the app's name
> and the description doesn't make it any clearer so you've just lost a
> potential user.

Fair point. I just didn't think of it since I have known "Lines Of
Code" such a long time. I will update description. Thanks.

> All that being said I can't wait to see the SLOCat app that encompasses both
> LOCat and the heLLOCatty libraries.
>
> And no, I'm not going to define the terms either. ;p

Oh nos! I had to google LLOC! :-)