Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: > Bill Ricker schrieb: >> >> Plumhead may sound stupid but there's nothing wrong with Plum-Headed >> Parakeet spelled correctly with the Hyphen and Three Cap Letters. It's >> a real bird whose initials spell PHP, what more could you want in a >> name?. O'Reilly's cover editor will be happy, although they may have >> to hand-tint the old block to get the evocative colo[u]?ring - they're >> quite colo[u]?rful, almost pretty in a garish sort of way, which >> somehow seems appropriate for PHP. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum-headed_Parakeet. >> >> (One /could/ be obscure and use the latin name >> http://home.wanadoo.nl/psittaculaworld/Mutations/P-cyanocephala.htm ) >> > On the Wikipedia page I liked the sentence: > > "Plum-headed Parakeet is a gregarious and noisy species with range > of raucous calls." > > This is definitly a good description of PHP. >> If what one wants is a short-form of the name that sounds less goofy >> than "Plumhead" but still much fewer keystrokes than Plum-Headed >> Parakeet , perhaps PHPkeet would serve as a logotype for the longer >> formal name with good pun and allusions, and simultaneously serve as a >> Google(tm)-able keyword distinct from the aviary variety? >> >> > My favourite short form would be "PHParakeet", pronounced as "P - H - > Parakeet".
I seem to recall that PHP forbids redistribution under names that contain "php" as a substring, but at the moment I can't find evidence for it, and I don't know if it applies to independent re-implementations. Nonetheless you should investigate in that direction before choosing PHParakeet as a name. > This still has the PHP in it, but only as a sensible abbreviation of > "Plum-Headed Parakeet". > > Regards, > Bernhard -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/
