Anyone know anything named DX? (was Re: Announcing PyCs) (was: Announcing PyCs, a new Python-like language on .Net)

[Michael Foord]

"Roger Binns" <rogerb at rogerbinns.com> wrote in message news:<1stv02-qlp.ln1 at home.rogerbinns.com>...
> Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> > The "great" names are long gone.
> 
> Here is my (unpatented) technique:
> 
> Use APG online to generate pronounceable words (they are intended to be
> passwords but who cares).  You need to turn off symbols and digits.
> Here is one site:
> 
>   http://maurizio.giampy.it/apg/
> 
> Set the length range to whatever takes your fancy.  Read through the
> list and do a Google search for any that look good.  Wonder how on
> earth so many of them have matches.  Rinse and repeat until you find
> one with no matches.
> 
> It was how I came up with Entrocul and BitPim :-)
> 
> I did actually send an email to Google labs suggesting they come
> up with an "naming" tool where you could suggest what style of
> name you wanted (eg scientific, Italian, computery) and it would
> generate random strings of that form with no entries in the
> index.  They never responded.
> 
> Roger


That sounds like a *very* good idea..... 
I'm not going to do it though ;-)

Regards,


Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html