On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Serge Stinckwich
<serge.stinckw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Serge Stinckwich
>> <serge.stinckw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas Cellier
>>> <nicolas.cellier.aka.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2016-03-04 19:51 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> I personally never liked the name “SciSmalltalk”. “SciPharo” is much
>>>>> better in my opinion
>>>>> PhaNum is also okay to me.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> SciSmalltalk is ugly.
>>>
>>> I don't like the name either. We will find a better sexy name !
>>
>> Just a random line of thought...
>> PhaNum --> NumPha --> numcha --> numchi
>> --> numqi "An energy around numbers"
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi
>
> Nice !
>
> Any other ideas ?
Well, since you asked... Another approach is to consider who the
biggest competitor is - the one you'd like to be compared to and would
like to beat. Maybe its Julia(?), which currently got some buzz. From
a cursory skim, its multiple dispatch, dynamic typing and Scheme &
Common Lisp influences [1] somewhat echoes Smalltalk. We have
similar facility as [2] to already inspect method bytecode and I
reckon we might(?) be able to provide a view of the JITed machine code
and might(?) be possible someday be able to hand-tune that machine
code, which would be good to promote our system as a similar
one-stop-shop as described in [2].
So... along the philosophy that when a fight is starting, you should
*first* punch the *biggest* guy on the nose... you could be
provocative and name it Gaston or Fatou [3], except then I discover
the Julia name apparently has nothing to do with Julia Sets [4].
So.... maybe Julia --> Juliet --> Romeo --> { Romiio, Romiea, Romiia,
Rhomia } -- these being a selection of variations with high
goognique**. However, on the one hand, we'd need to gain the
credibility to back this up, but on the other hand, its not just about
punching some on the nose... such naming can be aspirational. The
research presented by Jim Collins in"Good To Great" advises its quite
beneficial to have an adversary you can compete against in a
*friendly* way.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)
[2] http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-betting-on-julia.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set
[4]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29290780/what-does-the-name-of-julia-the-programming-language-refer-to
** My this instant newly contrived portmanteau for "google unique".
