Am 27.01.2012 um 08:17 schrieb Max Leske <[email protected]>:
> I always enjoy it if a product / project with a "funny" name explains that > name somewhere (origin, intention). I think it says a lot about the kind of > project it is (how dedicated are the people? If the name is crap, the product > will probably be too…). So I thought, it might be cool to introduce a > paragraph (in the "About" section maybe) that explains the origins of the > name "Pharo". > > Any thoughts? > Named after its inventor smalltalk had only a k-light [1] to shed some light into the dark territory called programming. We recognized that we need something bigger to guide our way. That's how the lighthouse idea was born. Although it's spelled wrongly the name pharo refers to the famous pharos of alexandria [2] which is also the required size the lighthouse needs to have in order to make us see anything. [1] http://www.what-if.com/SECURE/pisat/klight-p-1.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria
