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Subject: [9fans] naming conventions
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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 --