On Sun, 14 May 2006, m2 wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : > > 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 ;-) ) > > As far as I am concerned, it is not a matter of offense. I am as > atheist as you are (if not more :-) I am way beyond atheism already :-) > > The problem with "Lazarus" is that it is a very bad name. There is > nothing in it that is linked to the software itself or that suggests > something pleasant. Well, just to name a few: Delphi - reminds me of ancient greece. Duh ! Gambas - I hate shrimp! GNU - not really an inspiring animal ? Python - a snake. Not exactly a positive image ?? perl - Pathetically Eccclesiastic Rubbish Lister ?! Ruby - A girls name, and an obvious hint at perl ? Pathetic ! Eclipse - I don't see what is positive about the light going out for everyone ?! I'm sure that if you look up projects in freshmeat or whatever, you'll find a lot more names which are associated with strange things. Lazarus is just a name. The original project from which Lazarus was derived was called 'Megido' - some sacred mountain in Israel. I'm sure not many people on the list know this ? > To keep the idea that is behind "Lazarus", for > instance, "Phoenix" would have been a better choice. But, as a matter > of fact, any "X-FPC" or "FPC-X" would have been better. Not that these > names are good, just it is very difficult to be worst than "Lazarus". This obviously is a matter of taste. If we're going to change the name, why not go for Cheetah ? Honour the mascotte of FPC ? Oh no ! it's already a template engine for Python ! Tiger ? Damn, Apple used it. Puma ? Open source media player for Mac... Lynx ? Also in use.. Leopard ? opensource Egovernment project Lion ? Nope: (La)TeX uses a lion's image... and so on... To make it short: Personally, I really don't see the need... Michael.
