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Re: Cheeseshop: msg#00161

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Subject: Re: Cheeseshop

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On Oct 16, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> Which is really, really, REALLY sad. The "Cheese Shop" name may
> reflect the
> proper cultural bias toward Monty Python, but it's a sure way to
> alienate
> people by presenting the hard work of the community under a
> completely silly
> name that communicates nothing about what it's about.

I now invoke Warsaw's Fifth Law (a.k.a. "the Pink Floyd rule"): All
names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it.

Cheese Shop seems fine to me (and not just 'cause I came up with
it). You /need/ a little humor and levity in a software project or
it just gets boring.

- -Barry

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