A rose by any other name smells the same.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Barry
Hansen
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 2:35 PM
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Subject: Mersenne: Re: Changing Prime95's name
Briefly Brian Beesley began:
Therefore the logical new name would be either WinPrime or Prime32.
I'm definitely strongly _against_ change for the sake of change,
particularly if the object is simply to track the latest fashion
emanting from Redmond WA. In another 7 years, chances are Joe Public
won't find XP any more relevant than 95.
I think people are on the right track here... avoid names using the fad
of
the day, and pick something brief with just enough meaning to make it
easy
to remember. I don't really care what it's called as long as it
generally
follows this guideline.
In fact my PrimeXP suggestion was tongue-in-cheek, since the eXtreme
Programming moniker is just a clever marketing scheme for consultants
to
sell more books and make money. Our team has been doing XP for a year
and
there are some good things in it, but I'm still not sure why collecting
several existing programming techniques together and emphasizing certain
attributes has caused it to deserve a catchy new name. Oh well, at least
it's recognizable. :-)
Cheers, Barry
PS - I don't seem to recall that someone *asked* for a vote on a new
program
name. Just think how much activity we'd see if George really wanted some
opinions! :-)
PPS - I sure hope to talk about this again in 93 years.
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