Re: [OFFTOPIC] Naming convention for programs

2008-03-10 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
Thank you guys for your ideas. I'll give them a second thought before deciding. Regards, -- Gerardo Santana

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Naming convention for programs

2008-03-08 Thread Matthew Szudzik
> I was thinking of verb-subject, or verb_subject, or viceversa. If you are writing a family of related programs, then the word that they have in common should be first. For example, in OpenBSD there are mount_cd9660 mount_ffs mount_msdos and so on. The fact that these programs perform rela

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Naming convention for programs

2008-03-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:29:00PM -0600, Gerardo Santana G?mez Garrido wrote: > We're writing a set of tools at work and I'm thinking of establishing > a naming convention to enforce, before we get more programs deployed. > > I was thinking of verb-subject, or verb_subject, or viceversa. > > As

[OFFTOPIC] Naming convention for programs

2008-03-07 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
We're writing a set of tools at work and I'm thinking of establishing a naming convention to enforce, before we get more programs deployed. I was thinking of verb-subject, or verb_subject, or viceversa. As always, I looked at OpenBSD for inspiration, and found pkg_* ssh-* rpc.* where the prefix