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

Bastian Schumacher bastian.schumacher at yahoo.de
Sun Sep 5 12:27:21 EDT 2010


Yep, same with Java + island ;)

Life is not always as hard as one may think ^^

Basti


Am 05.09.2010 um 18:13 schrieb 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)
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:13:13 +0300
>> From: Tambet <qtvali at gmail.com>
>> To: ChucK Users Mailing List <chuck-users at lists.cs.princeton.edu>
>> Subject: [chuck-users] ChucK is too short.
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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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>> Subject: Re: [chuck-users] ChucK is too short.
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>> 2010/9/5 Tambet <qtvali at gmail.com>
>>
>>> 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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