On Sat, 13 May 2006, Flávio Etrusco wrote:
> On 5/13/06, Tony Maro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > > On 5/13/06, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > They printed an article on "Gambas". In Spanish it means > > > > shrimp. > > > > > > On portuguese, Gambas is a black and white animal that stinks a lot > > > when scared =) > > > > > Skunk in English. I used to own one. Darn things bite hard too. Ours > > was de-stinked. ;-) > > > > It was quite a site to see him and the dogs playing with each other in > > the yard. > > > > Pretty foul-tempered too. I'd never own another. > > > > -Tony > > > > LOL. I know one name for it (the animal) is 'ratel', but don't know > whether this is the word that's most commonly used or not... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratel > > Anyway, back to the serious subject: Michael, couldn't it be that > Lazarus and FPC weren't mature enough at the time? (since you said it > was long time ago...) They didn't even mention that. FPC was mature, at the time. I didn't offer to write about Lazarus. (which was just born back then, if I remember correctly) Personally, I thought it was the old 'Pascal is dead' argument.. > Any chance you can give it another try? If you have any other hint > that might suggest it was some kind of preconception I sure will be > one of the guys to complain (write) to LJ ;-) I'm not going to give it another try. If asked, I will write it, but I'm not going to offer it anymore. > I don't think Lazarus' lack of "momentum" has anything with the name, > but as somebody already said some days ago in another thread, I think > mixing religion with anything is a bad idea... I wouldn't mind > 'lazarus' changing name to anything of greek mitology too (like Delphi > and Kylix are) or whatever ;-) Well: I don't think that after so many years, Lazarus should change it's name. People taking offense at this name only make themselves ridiculous. I refuse to take that (or them) serious. ( Yes, and I will take the risk that I will burn eternally in hell for this ;-) ) If I remember correctly, the FPC irc channel was once mistakenly confused with a channel for people with peculiar sexual tastes. Should we be offended by this and change the name ? No... Michael.
