A good name for a GUI library?

Dejan Lekic dejan.lekic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 13:39:18 UTC 2021


On Monday, 15 March 2021 at 13:38:01 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 10:59:11 UTC, Mark Lagodych wrote:
>> I've got an idea of a small GUI library as a pet project. What 
>> easy-to-type, short and nice name you can suggest? I can also 
>> use a shortened form (for instance, if the lib is called 
>> "kaleidoscope", i can use only "kd").
>>
>> I've come up with these ones so far:
>> - Mango (is it already used?)
>> - Rowan (i like it; could be shorten to "rw")
>> - Feijoa (complicated, however, could be shorten to nice "fj")
>> - Pumpkin (also could be "pmk")
>>
>> Why fruit? Well, that are just my names. You don't have to 
>> mention fruit.
>>
>> Any beautiful words associated with Mars?
>
> This reminds me of a famous quote by a genius:
>
> "The most important thing in the programming language is the 
> name. A language will not succeed without a good name." -- 
> Donald Knuth

Actually, that was not a full quote... The full quote is the 
following - "The most important thing in the programming language 
is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I 
have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for 
a suitable language."


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