Is there a better name than 'xpost'?

[luserdroog]

We have to move to github, since google-code is shutting down. And Vincent points out that this is a good time to change the name if we want to do that.

 

So, does 'xpost' need a better name? I did a lot of playing with names early on in the project, but when I got to 'xpost', I stopped. It seemed pretty good to me. Of course, we're no longer limited to X11, but x can now stand for "anything" for certain definitions of 'anything'.

 

The only problem per se with 'xpost' that I've discovered is its occasional confusion with the abbreviation for cross-post. And this does impede its searchability.

 

But I do like the occasional dyslexic reading: x.pos(t). I don't know if anyone else's brain has read-that-in at some point.

 

What would be a good name?

 

My criteria a priori would be

  short (type-able) 

  evocative (like you can almost see the animal picture on its O'Reilly book, if there

were one)

  play on the words post script NeWS, but it should be a string of letters that is not

a common English word.

 

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[vincent.torri]

maybe :

freepost
librepost

you should also ask libreoffice guys, maybe

Vincent

[vincent.torri]

newps

newpost

freeps

libreps

[luserdroog]

As a really far stretch, I came up with this:

With some retconning and misapprehension, one could consider Postscript to be a reference to Emil Post, who contemporaneously with Church's and Turing's classic computational models, offered a "Turing-complete" model using queues.

 

While postscript operates internally in a reverse-Lukasiewicz model, externally it operates on streams, queues: solidifying the reference. Post's model also introduced a comprehensive system of tagging data, whereas the tag-union is the natural implementation of postscript objects. (Upon further thought, scratch this part: other models use tagging of some sort. Turing sets aside every other cell for a tag. Not sure about Church.)

 

Thus the proposals are:

 

emil

emilleon

emil-{'script' in Post's native language ... oh, he's American of Polish/Jewish descent, so 'script' it is. }

leon  (<-- there's the animal!)

 

--

psat  (unrelated to above. Play on the Russian word "pisat" (write))

ncam (visual pun on the same word.)

pshu (pishu "I write")

pshou (same with French vowel)

pshow (+ English pun)

 

 

[vincent.torri]

note that there will be soon an "emile" library that will be out, in some month

[luserdroog]

Maybe that's where I got the idea. Emil would be too similar.

But, 'Leon' or 'Leonscr' or 'Leonscript' or 'Leonrip' or 'Lionscript'

 

Hmm. Lionscript could be written in a graphic design, with extra shapes underneath 'Lion' to create the words Post. <-- a vertical line to make the L and i look like a P. The o stays the same. A dangling cedilla from the left leg of the n to make the S. And a dangling dagger from the right leg of the n to make the T.

 

I'm really liking this one.

[vincent.torri]

as a reference to ghostscript : "ectoplasm" (or synonyms : http://thesaurus.babylon.com/ectoplasm ) :)

[luserdroog]

That's a great idea. It could even be one of "The Ghostbusters". Like, egonscript.

 

ectopost.

emanation. emanate. evocate.

etherscript. ether.

[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

Afterword? AfterScript?

Suffix?

Are those who bother to interpret a PostScript a ‘Pedant’?

[vincent.torri]

So Josh, have you chosen a new name ?

btw, you should post also something about the license

Vincent

[luserdroog]

Vincent, no, I haven't picked a new name. A lot of them are good, a few I think are better than xpost, but none is "better enough" to make the work seem worthwhile. There are a lot of references to 'xpost'. 

 

There is one other advantage of a name change not mentioned, and that is to better separate my old "version numbers" with the newer release numbers (once we increment it from 0.0.0, that is). But even that isn't so much of an issue, because any references to "Xpost 3" and "Xpost 2" out there in usenet archives and old vcs commits all have timestamps which should clarify any potential confusion that may arise.

 

The license is a good thing to talk about. I think I'll make a separate thread.

 

[luserdroog]

I like those. Some others in a similar vein: coda, metalog or metalogos.

 

Pedant would be an excellent name for a debugging tool.