Re: Keep the 'keet Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-15 Thread Christoph Otto
François Perrad wrote: 2008/6/15 Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bill Ricker schrieb: Plumhead may sound stupid but there's nothing wrong with Plum-Headed Parakeet spelled correctly with the Hyphen and Three Cap Letters. It's a real bird whose initials spell PHP, what more could you

Re: Keep the 'keet Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-15 Thread Moritz Lenz
Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: > Bill Ricker schrieb: >> >> Plumhead may sound stupid but there's nothing wrong with Plum-Headed >> Parakeet spelled correctly with the Hyphen and Three Cap Letters. It's >> a real bird whose initials spell PHP, what more could you want in a >> name?. O'Reilly's cover e

Re: Keep the 'keet Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-15 Thread François Perrad
2008/6/15 Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Ricker schrieb: > >> >> Plumhead may sound stupid but there's nothing wrong with Plum-Headed >> Parakeet spelled correctly with the Hyphen and Three Cap Letters. It's >> a real bird whose initials spell PHP, what more could you want in a >

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-15 Thread Nigel Hamilton
> As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". > > > > So I'm still open for an alternative. > > Parroheep? > > > IMHO the name needs to be distinctive from parrot - pharrot is a little too close. What about taking the idea from Space Odyssey where they derived the name

Re: Keep the 'keet Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-15 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Jun 14, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: perhaps PHPkeet Forgive me since I haven't been lurking very long here, but would "PHParrot" be appropriate? A ggogle search didn't turn up evidence that it had been considered. Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.

Re: Keep the 'keet Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-15 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Bill Ricker schrieb: Plumhead may sound stupid but there's nothing wrong with Plum-Headed Parakeet spelled correctly with the Hyphen and Three Cap Letters. It's a real bird whose initials spell PHP, what more could you want in a name?. O'Reilly's cover editor will be happy, although they may hav

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread ajr
>From Bernhard Schmalhofer: > As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". > > So I'm still open for an alternative. Parroheep? -- Email and shopping with the feelgood factor! 55% of income to good causes. http://www.ippimail.com

Keep the 'keet Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Bill Ricker
> Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: >> "Plumhead", from *P*lum*h*eaded *P*arakeet, is the current name of the PHP >> on Parrot implementation. >> As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, Plumhead may sound stupid but there's nothing wrong with Plum-Headed Parakeet spelled correctly with the Hyphen and Three Cap

Re: Renaming Plumhead"

2008-06-14 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Jun 14, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: Nobody is claiming that "Pharrot" is a word, just that when pronouned aloud it sounds like "ferret", and people are likely, with the plethora of animal project names floating around, to assume that it is in fact "Ferret" if they hear it before se

Re: Renaming Plumhead"

2008-06-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
Nobody is claiming that "Pharrot" is a word, just that when pronouned aloud it sounds like "ferret", and people are likely, with the plethora of animal project names floating around, to assume that it is in fact "Ferret" if they hear it before seeing it. On 6/14/08, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:45:26 +0200 Off the top of my head, I think "Pharrot" isn't a bad choice. Maybe written as "Pherrot?" As an alternative, maybe "Phoebe" or "PHoePe?" ;-) Ron Or "Phoenix"? Does this count as a resurrection from th

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: "Plumhead", from *P*lum*h*eaded *P*arakeet, is the current name of the PHP on Parrot implementation. As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". "Pharrot" is definitly nicer than "Plumhead", but maybe too close to Parrot. Furthermore it ch

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Alberto Simões
Will Coleda wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:23 AM, James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: Hi, As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". Problem: "Pharrot" in English is a homonym for "ferret": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:23 AM, James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >> >>> >>> As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". >> >> Problem: "Ph

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:23 AM, James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: >> >> Hi, >> > >> >> As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". > > Problem: "Pharrot" in English is a homonym for "ferret": > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret.

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread James E Keenan
Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: Hi, As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". Problem: "Pharrot" in English is a homonym for "ferret": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret. Are we really sure we want to saddle part of our project with that association? (OTOH,

Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Hi, "Plumhead", from *P*lum*h*eaded *P*arakeet, is the current name of the PHP on Parrot implementation. As "Plumhead" is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to "Pharrot". "Pharrot" is definitly nicer than "Plumhead", but maybe too close to Parrot. Furthermore it changes the 'P' sound th