Re: [Exist-development] Renaming the "gate"

[Evgeny G. <gaz...@gm...>]

2010/3/23 Thomas White <tho...@gm...>:
> Evgeny,
>
> There is something that I have learned about the names in English speaking
> world. If people can say it and speak about it, then it has much beter
> chance of taking off. Before AJAX was named with a simple, short word that
> everybody can pronounce then it started to exist in poeple's minds.
>
> I will strongly recommend not to use a name made mainly of consonants
> because it is non-pronounsable and if people may stay away of it  just for
> this simple reason.
>
> On other hand if you have vowels in the name and it is a word that one can
> shout then it has much better chances for adoption.
>
> Just think about two developers talking -
> "What have you been working on recently?"
> "It is a nice thing but I just can't say its name X#$!?&~."
> "How can I find it?"
> "Easy just search for X#$!?&~. Actually I think it was X#5$!?&~, or was it
> X#"£$!?&~ I can't remember..."
>
> I hope this will help.
>
> Thomas
>

Agree with every para


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Evgeny