[r6rs-discuss] On naming the next scheme(s) [was scheme-reports.org]

[Adrien "Pied" Piérard]

2009/8/24 John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>:
> I was thinking about "Diamond" myself.

"Yet an other gem"?
Ruby and Perl are somehow aesthetically related, but Ruby and Scheme
or Perl and Scheme are not.
And a diamond logo is very likely to be at first thought as a Ruby one…

We might like names that show how related the two instances (for the
lack of a better word from me) of the language.
If one is a superset of the other, then its name should embed
(lexically or semantically) the other's.

Still, should "Diamond" be used, I also like "Carbon".
Carbon, as in a pencil, illustrates pretty well a tool useful to
sketch things, give births to ideas, or even draw fine art.
But tweak it a bit, and then you get some perfection.
But I see a very restricted use of diamonds: either for wedding rings,
either for some "obscure" engineering processes.

And I also mention (ahead of time) that I am very unlikely to support
an retronym—such as Gnu's Not Unix.
(I also wonder if now is already the right time to spend time on such
a futile issue)


Adrien

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