[Corelinux-public] reviving the naming discussion

[Dan G. <goh...@mr...>]

I noticed there was a thread on this list a while ago discussing the
name of this project. From reading the archives, it seems that there
were misunderstandings.

When I first discovered CoreLinux++, I was interested in a lot of
the goals of the project, but I was quickly scared off by words like
this:

  What is not our intent?

  Not to be written for portability, but for exploitation
  of the Linux operating system enabling all that it has to offer
  to optimize performance.

This is a very surprising position, as it is contradictory to the
goals stated on the rest of the site.

One of the most prominant places this exists is in the name of the
project, CoreLinux++. One reason some people don't like this
name is that, contrary to what good OOD prinicples would
recommend, it focuses on a specific implementation detail instead
of on the interface and its functionality.

I realize that the developers are focusing on and developing on
a certain platform, and this is fine. The project should not,
however, exclude the possibility of someone else implementing
various parts of the library on other platforms.

Dan

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Dan Gohman
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