I think we try to find a googlable name because it means it has an unique name... whichever the search engine or the repository of data... we just try to look for a distinctive name.
Anyway, people will find it as "c# shell" or "mono shell", I hope :) Regards JuanCri On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Abe Gillespie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Just for the record, we shouldn't be deciding the name of a product > based on its Googlability. I'll leave it as an exercise for the > reader as to why that's a ridiculous metric. > > -Abe > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Enver ALTIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > imcs reminds me of some instant messaging blah, and I don't like the csi > > either for obvious reasons. > > > > I think following the tradition and adding the `sh` suffix is a really > > good idea because the thing by its nature targets unix-savvy people and > > not the Visual Studio community. And unix-savvy people know very well > > what a shell is good for. > > > > So yeah, I vote for Juan's second idea: csish. It has 701 hits on > > Google, I'm pretty sure a wiki page on go-mono.com will be #1 soon. > > > > On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 17:39 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > >> The name of the C# shell today is `csharp', but this is awkward to > >> type, we have been considering renaming it, the options are: > >> > >> * csi - stands for C# interactive > >> > >> Pros: short, cute, easy to remember. > >> Cons: popular TV show. > >> > >> * imcs - interactive Mono C# compiler > >> > >> Pros: similar to `gmcs' and `mcs' > >> Cons: hard to figure out it exists. > > > > -- > > Enver > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >
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