From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Date: 2002-10-13T19:35:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting

dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> Hello --
> 
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mike Campbell wrote:
> 
> > > I think almost anything is a better name than CRAN, as that (to me)
> > > sounds like a Perl imitation reflex.  (I know there's CTAN too, but it
> > > still sounds Perl-derived to me.)
> >
> > CTAN preceded CPAN by... half a decade or more, did it not?
> 
> The "it" in my last sentence was meant to refer to "CRAN" -- i.e.,
> even though CPAN is not the only C?AN around, I still get the strong
> feeling that the idea of calling a Ruby archive CRAN comes directly
> from CPAN.  (I don't think CTAN is a Perl imitation :-)

I'm sure there are better names than CRAN, but there are worse names 
too (think CRAP ... we don't want this, do we?) Maybe something which 
has to do with mining etc? Rubymine?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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("And what about the history of the human race, dad?"
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  then you study which foolish things have been made")