Pretty cool! Maybe still a bit cryptic but it's pretty much what I was hoping for. Thanks Norbert.
Max On 27.01.2012, at 08:54, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > > Am 27.01.2012 um 08:17 schrieb Max Leske <[email protected]>: > >> I always enjoy it if a product / project with a "funny" name explains that >> name somewhere (origin, intention). I think it says a lot about the kind of >> project it is (how dedicated are the people? If the name is crap, the >> product will probably be too…). So I thought, it might be cool to introduce >> a paragraph (in the "About" section maybe) that explains the origins of the >> name "Pharo". >> >> Any thoughts? >> > Named after its inventor smalltalk had only a k-light [1] to shed some light > into the dark territory called programming. We recognized that we need > something bigger to guide our way. That's how the lighthouse idea was born. > Although it's spelled wrongly the name pharo refers to the famous pharos of > alexandria [2] which is also the required size the lighthouse needs to have > in order to make us see anything. > > [1] http://www.what-if.com/SECURE/pisat/klight-p-1.html > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria
