On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 21:29:34 (-0600), John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: > > The Toy Story names have no inherent sequence to them, and fail to aid > > in my (and I suspect several others) understanding. > > I dislike them as well and would also prefer numbers. I never saw the > movie nor had any interest in it so to me the names might as well have > been picked at random from a list of Hindu gods.
I'm sure there's a project somewhere in the world that has done just that. I don't think Intel expects their employees to have any particular interest in geographical features. > For those who prefer words, how about "One", "Two", .... ? There's good precedent: the English aristocracy (though in Latin). I notice there's an English politician who has revived the practice. But it only works in one constituency (no pun intended), ie Debian. Most projects take a larger world view. Cheers, David.