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

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:21:22 -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:19:25 -0800, EP wrote:
> 
>> Jeremy Bowers commented:
> 
>> If you can't come up with a good name, use a letter and symbol or 
>> three (but no more than 3), e.g. C, C++, C#.  Such will be 
>> non-objectionable, but will not help you in getting your 
>> language/technology adopted, or even remembered.
> 
> Well, I gave up on coming up with a good name so I'm taking your advice and
> using DX, for Dynamic Xml language. 

That isn't actually my advice (which the quoting sorta makes plausible)
but here is my stupid advice, or "idea" anyhow: Anagrams. My "outliner" is
called "Iron Lute". It's kooky, but it is distinctive and a google search
for that phrase (quoted) came up nearly empty at naming time.

The "great" names are long gone. The entirity of the naming space hasn't
even begun to be tapped. New projects at this point are lucky if their
name has any relation to what it does. Python? Apache? Evolution? Perl?
It's not even a new problem :-)