2009/8/24 John Cowan <[email protected]>: > I was thinking about "Diamond" myself.
"Yet an other gem"? Ruby and Perl are somehow aesthetically related, but Ruby and Scheme or Perl and Scheme are not. And a diamond logo is very likely to be at first thought as a Ruby one… We might like names that show how related the two instances (for the lack of a better word from me) of the language. If one is a superset of the other, then its name should embed (lexically or semantically) the other's. Still, should "Diamond" be used, I also like "Carbon". Carbon, as in a pencil, illustrates pretty well a tool useful to sketch things, give births to ideas, or even draw fine art. But tweak it a bit, and then you get some perfection. But I see a very restricted use of diamonds: either for wedding rings, either for some "obscure" engineering processes. And I also mention (ahead of time) that I am very unlikely to support an retronym—such as Gnu's Not Unix. (I also wonder if now is already the right time to spend time on such a futile issue) Adrien -- Français, English, 日本語, 한국어 _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
