Bryan Cantrill writes:
> Now that said, the one thing that I confess does grate a bit is Apple's 
> choice of "DTracer" for the module name.  Personally, I would prefer 
> that the name "DTrace" be used, if only because "DTracer" is not used
> anywhere else in DTrace (to me, "DTracer" sounds more like a license plate
> that Jarod might get than it does an actual piece of the technology).  So
> unless there's a compelling reason not to, we would encourage environments
> to adopt simply "DTrace" as the module name...

I like "DTracer," because it fits in well with the rest of the Mac
environment -- Chooser, Launcher, Installer, Finder -- and this makes
it look like a first-class citizen in the Mac world.

I agree with avoiding gratuitous renaming, but if a slight alteration
helps support an existing design pattern, I don't think it's
necessarily a bad thing.

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