On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:10:45PM +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> I know this is vaguely offtopic, but, are Sun ok with you using "Java" as
> part of the name? I mean, it would suck changing the name to avoid probs w/
> J. D. Edwards, only to find out that Sun want you to stop expanding the
> acronym altogether.
Without details of the letter, I have questions about:
1) Is J.D. Edwards objecting to your domain name, or the
name of the webpage title? I think both, from what
little I know.
2) Is J.D. Edwards objecting to "jde" in the *package* names?
(E.g., (provide 'jde)).
3) Is J.D. Edwards objecting to symbols and variable names using
JDE (e.g., (defcustom jde-jdk-doc-url "<url>", etc.) If so,
are free variables more objectionable than local? You see
where these questions lead us.
I wonder what objection can be made to package or variable names.
These are details hidden from most users (though as an open source
project, all bound symbols can be seen by a user--presumably one who
has business poking around elisp and is not confused by distinctly
bound symbols). It would seem rather unfair to Paul to have to purge
'jde' even from locally scoped variables.
I do not know the answer to these questions, but ask them so that
jde (jdee?) users can be made aware of the scope of any changes. I
have literally thousands of copies of Paul's tool deployed around our
campus, and am anxious about any changes. We are also developing
extensions to jde to facilitate debugging of student homeworks. Of
course anything more than a cosmetic name change causes concern. (I
suppose all languages, even elisp, have something like the C++
'fragile base class' problem.)
So, Paul, please keep us informed of any changes (and their scope),
and any help you need if a different course is taken.
Lastly, I'd like to thank Paul for his hard work on jde (jdee?).
It's a credit to him that he called for calm and civility when, by all
accounts, he would have every right to be angry.
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