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Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-
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Noah Lavine |
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Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools) |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:11:00 -0400 |
The coolness is irrefutable. :-)
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> "Guido, compile my-file.scm."
>>
>> Is the pun[*] intended? :-)
>
> OK, point taken. Too bad though!
>
> I have another proposal, but first I want to elaborate on why I think
> guile-tools is a silly name.
>
> First of all it's not a good noun. I don't know how to capitalize it,
> for example. Guile-Tools ? Too camel-casey. Guile-tools ? It's long
> and slanted, like a boat launching ramp. guile-tools ? But then it
> doesn't look like the start of a sentence.
>
> Also, how do you feel when you say "guile-tools compile foo.scm" ? I
> kinda feel like a tool! Its clunkiness makes me feel clunky. Not good!
>
> These difficulties have real repercussions. A clunky name leads us to
> avoid mentioning the thing, which isn't good either for the tool itself
> or for peoples' awareness of the tool.
>
> Names are important, is what I'm saying.
>
> So! My new proposal is "guild".
>
> guild update
> guild compile foo.scm
> guild install fmt
>
> Guild has the usual advantages of being short and having a name that
> shares structure with Guile. Of course there is the disadvantage that
> it's only one character away, and my fingers are programmed to type "e"
> after "guil", so there would be some retraining.
>
> But that doesn't mention the real advantage of "guild", which is how you
> feel when you type it or tell it to someone: that you pertain to a
> secret society of wizards! Who wouldn't want to pertain to such a
> guild? I feel awesomer just for having typed it.
>
> Also if the main purpose of the tool will be, besides compilation,
> interaction with our CPAN, then it really will be about a collective of
> people producing spel(l)s (cf. Barski's "Casting SPELs with Lisp").
> Sweet!
>
> What do folks think about this harebrained idea?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
> --
> http://wingolog.org/
>
>
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, (continued)
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Barry Fishman, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, dsmich, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/30
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/30
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, David Pirotte, 2011/03/21
Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, 2011/03/21
on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools), Andy Wingo, 2011/03/30
Re: on the importance of names, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/30