On Wednesday 10 December 2008 15:35:48 Adrian Custer wrote: > Hey Mauricio, > > Fantastic work on your language Our Language! We have done this language for the GIS community. (and thanks :) ) > ---sounds like a big effort and I'm glad > to think it will pay off. > > 'Tis late in the game to bring this up, and I suspect I may have raised > this before, but I got to say this nonetheless. THE NAME SUCKS. That's > really too bad since the first impression adds a, totally avoidable, > negative take on what looks like great work. TXT means something and > absolutely *everyone* knows what it means. TXT is a file format. Using > it as the name of a language is like calling a car "ball". :D, good example. > Probably we > could figure out from context what is being said but why add the work to > your users/readers/documentors? CQL has the advantage of having a > memorable and descriptive acronym: "something query language". I am not > looking forward to confusion your TXT name will add to the mailing > lists, documentation or other layers of the library. > > So I would encourage you to change the name. You surely can come up with > something you like which is both descriptive and un-encumbered, e.g.
> TXTQL nice! > or some such. But please avoid us the cost of having to explain > that TXT in geotools is actually the name of a language too. > Absolutely agree. > thanks, > adrian I will change the subject of this mail to hear what the people think about. cheers ---------------------- Mauricio Pazos www.axios.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
