On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Tim Matthews <tim.matthe...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com>wrote: > >> Quick update: I'm including the "Stylish" code in the hamlet package now, >> and renaming it to "Camlet" (CSS-hamlet). I'm also including something >> called "Jamlet", which doesn't do much besides variable interpolation. As >> you might guess, it's for Javascript. I mention it at the end of my most >> recent blog post[1]. >> >> Michael >> >> > While It's just a name and not really important: hamlet was haml so I first > imagined sasset, sasslet or another name from one of the works of > Shakespeare but I then really liked stylish as I thought it would tell that > something with solid foundations and theory could still appear, hip and > pretty. > > What is important though is the code. This is absolutely great and success > just keeps getting harder to avoid. > > This is by no means a final decision; I'm open to being convinced that other names are better. But I'll point out the main reason for the Camlet/Jamlet name choice: easy to remember and type. I found "stylish" to be much harder to get out than "camlet"; that might just be because I'm so used to hamlet already, but that's exactly my goal here: make these three templating systems work together nicely to make the developers life a little bit easier. Michael
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