From: EBo <ebo@sandien.com>
To: 9Fans-list <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] naming conventions
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:29:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bca08f7e5b22db500c54deb4b58bc0c@swcp.com> (raw)
I do not mean to feed any trolls with this one, but I need to know how
people what some of this addressed in the future.
I've been catching a little flack off and on about the Plan 9's naming
convention of adding a '9' in front of program names. I've also noticed
that using emulators, on the linux side, prefixing a 9 breaks history
utilization functionality in most of the shells I use.
For immediate discussion, the 9vx executable is part of the vx32 source.
Is it more reasonable in this case to name the executive vx32 instead of
9vx since it is a plan 9 emulator for linux?
As a note, the flack I've been getting is not just about aesthetics. When
the editor of one of the journals I will likely want to publish in says
"good god, do not name it that. Starting a proper name or the title of a
paper with a numeral will break some search engines and cataloging
utilities..." I see this a potential problem.
EBo --
next reply other threads:[~2010-06-14 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 8:29 EBo [this message]
2010-06-14 9:01 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-06-14 13:32 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-14 13:47 ` EBo
2010-06-14 15:16 ` Stanley Lieber
2010-06-14 15:19 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-14 15:35 ` Nick LaForge
2010-06-14 21:10 ` hiro
2010-06-14 21:24 ` EBo
2010-06-14 21:32 ` erik quanstrom
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