[chuck-users] ChucK is too short (Tambet)

[Perry Cook]

As with much Google, just adding the right word(s) helps a lot.

Yes, ChucK alone brings up Chuck Norris (and why wouldn't it?),
but adding "Language" or "Unit Generators" or "Live Coding" usually
gets the list you want.

PRC

>   5. ChucK is too short. (Tambet)
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> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:13:13 +0300
> From: Tambet <qtvali at gmail.com>
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> The name "ChucK" needs some kind of prefix or suffix to give some method of
> good Google searches.
> 
> "ChucK music" gives ChucK berry; just "ChucK" gives a movie; "ChucK videos"
> is useless. If Google did understand the last capital letter, it would be
> all fine.
> 
> Google's own language is Go (or "Google Go"). They have another way to write
> it - "Go-lang". Go-lang gives all necessary things. "Go programming" does
> the same, but for general searches, this is not good - you might search for
> Go examples (and this sight might have no hint about programming) or Go
> users. You could search for Go libraries (not "Go programming libraries") or
> e-mail applications written in Go (no "e-mail applications written by
> programming in Go").
> 
> Just having some convention - for example that "ChucK" is abbreviation of
> "Chuck K..." and then having this "Chuck K..." in title or first occurrence
> of language's name in each good page talking about ChucK.
> 
> Otherwise it's just too much work to search :)
> 
> So ..ChucK name conquest?
> 
> With this <http://www.dasher.org.uk/> powerful application I found a few
> days ago it took half of minute to find my own suggestion - "Chuck Kit". It
> could be also "Chuck sound Kit" or "Chuck soundKit" (to keep the case
> convention). I would be happy if it was *anything* - anything except some
> very common english name, which gives us all kinds of stars and TV programs
> when googled for.
> 
> Tambet
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> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 04:34:55 +0200
> From: Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com>
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> 2010/9/5 Tambet <qtvali at gmail.com>
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>> The name "ChucK" needs some kind of prefix or suffix to give some method of
>> good Google searches.
>> 
>> 
> Not a bad point at all.
> 
> I've been getting into Fluxus ( http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ ), which has
> similar issues to ChucK. In the case of Fluxus it's a art movement, and not
> a martial-arts actor, but the effect is much the same. For the Fluxus flickr
> group and in some other places "fluxus.scm" is used, where ".scm" is the
> traditional file extension for Scheme code.
> 
> We could use "ChucK.ck"? Or something more elaborate like "chuckage"?
> 
> Generally it helps to add terms like "code", "livecode" or "language" to
> searches, BTW, and in practice that solves most issues, in my experience.
> 
> Yours,
> Kas.
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