Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools)

[nalaginrut]

> 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
> 

My girl friend think "guile-tool" could be abbreviate to 
"guil+t"=guilt...just joking, I don't think that's a proper name...hope
not enraging somebody. :-)



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