John Cowan escribió: > Antonio Vieiro scripsit: >> Hi, >> >> The fact is that I don't like "Thing One", or "Small Scheme". > > "Thing One" and "Thing Two" are deliberate jokes; see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat#The_Cat_in_the_Hat > > "small Scheme" and "large Scheme" are descriptions rather than names, > hence "small" and "large" are not capitalized. > >> "small" is a bad adjective. It seems to me it's equivalent to >> "poor" or "limited", and I hope this is not the case. > > The difficulty, indeed, is to find names which are not implicitly > derogatory of the other variety. "Complete" would suggest that small > Scheme was incomplete, "compact" that large Scheme was bloated. Each name > should celebrate the variety it is attached to. >
Yes, of course. I know it's difficult. I'm just trying to incite debate. Suggested pairs could be, for instance: - Scheme and Scheme Reloaded (optionally Scheme Revolutions, aka Schemer) - Scheme Standard Edition and Scheme Enterprise Edition. - Scheme Embedded Edition and Scheme Standard Edition. - Schemenstein and his bride. - Scheme Embedded Profile and Scheme Enterprise Profile. - Scheme Academic and Scheme Professional. - Scheme and Scheme Professional Edition. - R7RS Scheme and SR7R Scheme (SR7R to be defined) Any others, anyone? _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list r6rs-discuss@lists.r6rs.org http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
