On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:32:33 +0200 Antonio Vieiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Cowan escribió: >> Antonio Vieiro scripsit: >>> >>> The fact is that I don't like "Thing One", or "Small Scheme". >> >> "Thing One" and "Thing Two" are deliberate jokes; see >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat#The_Cat_in_the_Hat >> >> "small Scheme" and "large Scheme" are descriptions rather than names, >> hence "small" and "large" are not capitalized. >> >>> "small" is a bad adjective. It seems to me it's equivalent to >>> "poor" or "limited", and I hope this is not the case. >> >> The difficulty, indeed, is to find names which are not implicitly >> derogatory of the other variety. "Complete" would suggest that small >> Scheme was incomplete, "compact" that large Scheme was bloated. Each name >> should celebrate the variety it is attached to. >> > > Yes, of course. I know it's difficult. I'm just trying to incite debate. > > Suggested pairs could be, for instance: > > - Scheme and Scheme Reloaded (optionally Scheme Revolutions, aka Schemer) > - Scheme Standard Edition and Scheme Enterprise Edition. > - Scheme Embedded Edition and Scheme Standard Edition. > - Schemenstein and his bride. > - Scheme Embedded Profile and Scheme Enterprise Profile. > - Scheme Academic and Scheme Professional. > - Scheme and Scheme Professional Edition. > - R7RS Scheme and SR7R Scheme (SR7R to be defined) > > Any others, anyone? Maybe KISS (Keep It Simple, Schemer) for Thing-1 and SCHEMER (Scheme Considered Harmful: Entropy Multiplies Entropy, Recursively) for Thing-2. Best wishes. Mario _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
