Interesting idea. Stef
Begin forwarded message: > From: Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> > Date: March 12, 2010 6:59:20 PM GMT+01:00 > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list > <[email protected]>, Pharo Development > <[email protected]>, vwnc NC <[email protected]> > Subject: [squeak-dev] image overload > Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list > <[email protected]> > > Hi All, > > I'm sure Im opening an old topic but anyway, as I was riding the train to > work today I saw a shop called "Audio Images" and it struck me how overloaded > the term image is, and how poor a term for the contents of the image file > Smalltalk image is. What's in the image is a snapshot of... almost the > entire system (minus platform-specific virtual machine and possibly minus > sources). So Smalltalk system file would be a far better term and stsys a > more unique file extension (and according to Wikipedia STS is unused too). I > can imagine that changing form image would be hugely expensive in > documentation terms (docs, websites, workspaces, etc, etc). But I can at > least dream of a better term. > > P.S. I know, wasting one's time worrying about names. Almost as bad as > worrying about colours > > "And the wheel," said the Captain, "What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a > terribly interesting project." > "Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a little difficulty there." > "Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's > the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" > The marketing girl soured him with a look. > "Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what > colour it should be." >
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