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- From: yee@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee)
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- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 00:27:35 GMT
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- paulf@w6yx.Stanford.EDU (Paul Flaherty) writes:
- >
- >Well, my Reed - Solomon error correcting coder is now out of beta, and the
- >only remaining issue is:
- >
- >What to call it?
- >
- >I had originally proposed "rs", in keeping with Unix tradition of short,
- >clipped names. Critics have replied that this is too short, and that
- >something like "ecc-encode" and "ecc-decode", though that seems to be
- >pretty long and awkward. As an interim, I'm using "rscode" with flags
- >to indicate the desired operation.
- >
- >Sooooo...since Gnu's Not Unix, what will the command name philosophy be?
-
- Well, if this is a poll, here is my $0.02
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- You wrote it, you get to call it absolutely anything you want.
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- Personally, I like "rs". Long names give me typing cramps. Easier to
- remember but hell to type.
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