Also I think its fair that the guy that wrote the code to pick the name, its his baby afterall, whether he is paid for it or not. He earned that right.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 6:06 PM Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just for the record, the name does not matter > > As a matter of fact if you want the name to really sell the library/ tools > then the last thing you want is a name that makes any logical sense > > You have much better chance to catch attention with "Pink Elephant" than > "Pharo Remote tools" or whatever > > illogical names monopolise the software market > > Python > Ruby on Rails > Django > Blender > Unreal > Unity > Javascript > Java > C > C++ > Windows > MacOS > > and so on > > Developers choose to name their projects the craziest names and wisely so > > the name is there to catch attention, not to make sense or come up top on > google search. > > In the end what it matters is the code itself. > > Ruby On Rails did not become populary because we love ruby stones or we > love go "too...tooooooo" on rails ... its popular because the library has > been very useful to many people. > > And the name itself guarantees that it wont come up top in google search > because it has nothing unique about it. > > The rest is just marketing ;) >
