Vincent Manis scripsit: > I would recommend to the Committee that two names both of which > include the word `Scheme' be chosen, and suggest that they circulate a > list of candidates for community reaction. (Perhaps there could be > separate rankings for technical merit and for artistic impression :-)
English likes to put the head (most important word) last, though, and "X Scheme" is already well-understood as "the X implementation/dialect of Scheme". We don't want Pinky Scheme and Brain Scheme to be seen as new implementations, but as new languages which new and existing implementations can implement. Which argues for some other mechanism for naming them. "Scheme Lite", maybe; but then what? "Scheme Heavy"? I don't think so. > As a sidenote, `Essence' and `Quintessence' somewhat suffer from the > same problem as the English words `flammable' and `inflammable'. I am > not sure which of these is more `essential' (especially since Scheme > used to distinguish between essential and derived forms). "Quintessence" originally meant, as its form indicates, "the fifth essence", of which the heavenly bodies were thought to be made, as opposed to the four earthly essences of earth, air, fire, and water. > Perhaps if I'd studied more alchemy in university... Eheu fugaces, Vincente, Vincente, labuntur anni! -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan There was an old man Said with a laugh, "I From Peru, whose lim'ricks all Cut them in half, the pay is Look'd like haiku. He Much better for two." --Emmet O'Brien _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
