Descent 0.2 released
Ary Manzana
ary at esperanto.org.ar
Tue Mar 6 17:42:31 PST 2007
Brad Anderson escribió:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Mark Wrenn wrote:
>>> Ary Manzana wrote:
>>>> One more thing: I'm thinking of renaming the project to Déjàvu (it
>>>> has the letter D, it has "jav" on it, and it reminds you of some
>>>> other plugin...). What do you think?
>>>
>>> Frank Benoit's Tioport project has a library called dejavu.
>> Ooh, that's a good one. Wait a minute -- haven't I seen this code
>> before? :-) Using "dejavu" for a java to D conversion tool definitely
>> trumps any other usage I can think of, except for perhaps a D to java
>> conversion tool... or a D tool specifically for viewing Java code. But
>> neither of those is likely to happen. :-)
>>
>> Maybe you can think of a good name with vaguely astronomical
>> connotations, since we have Digital Mars on the one hand and Eclipse on
>> the other.
>>
>> Some random words that may spark an idea:
>> radioactive
>> radial
>> red shift
>> asteroid
>> meteoroid
>>
>> Or how about "Pathfinder"? Named after the successful Martian rover
>> mission. It has a 'd', it's positive, it has a Mars/astronomy
>> connections, and it's roughly descriptive of what the software actually
>> does (help you find your way through piles of code).
>>
>> Or forget all that and just call it "9D9". Because it sounds like some
>> kind of cool bounty hunter robot.
>>
>> Radial/radio are not bad either -- "Rad" tool for "D".
>>
>> --bb
>
> Descent is perfect.
>
> BA
>
> P.S. I'm the one who would have to change the project name in all the
> different places on the server ;)
All these replies make me like even more the name Descent (especially
Brad's answer). I won't change it. Thank you. :-P
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