Re: Silly names (was Distro choice not easy for Windows people...)

[Ken McAllister]

Ken McAllister says: Mozilla and Konqueror at first sight I took to be 
the addictive gorilla game and the 
fire-rockets-off-the-top-of-the-screen-and-they-appear-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen 
star wars game.

 Programming and teaching in DOS, years ago, I tried to warn people 
that silly names haunt you.  Name an object CASHBOOK and it is 
gratifying to type the word.  Name it CSHBK01 and it is a constant 
irritation.  I discarded an entire language because every one of its 
scores of commands was  ugly, for example "page break default", which 
could have been PAGEBREAK DEFAULT, was PG_BRK DFLT.