Yesod is fine, its very distinctive and unique name. Renaming it would be a waste of effort<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Alexey Levan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:exlevan@gmail.com">exlevan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2011/3/26 Felipe Almeida Lessa <<a href="mailto:felipe.lessa@gmail.com">felipe.lessa@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Aristid Breitkreuz<br>
> <<a href="mailto:aristidb@googlemail.com">aristidb@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> It's scary? I don't even know what "Yesod" means, and it sounds totally and<br>
>> utterly neutral to me, not scary at all. But it is easy to remember anyways,<br>
>> due to being very distinctive.<br>
>> What makes it sound scary to you?<br>
><br>
> My mother tongue is Portuguese, so neither "Yesod" nor "monad" meant<br>
> anything to me when I first heard of them. However none of them give<br>
> a warm, fuzzy feeling. I can't speak for people whose mother language<br>
> is English, but I'd bet they don't get this feeling as well.<br>
><br>
> As an example, "Ruby on Rails" feels nice. You actually can imagine a<br>
> nice, big, red ruby going fast like a train =).<br>
<br>
</div>I know, let's just read "Yesod" backwards, it's much warmer this way!<br>
<br>
Seriously though, I think that renaming of Yesod is going to be a<br>
wasted effort. The web is full of meaningless names and acronyms, I<br>
don't consider having one as a big deal. What matters in the end is<br>
quality of product behind a name/visibility of a name/etc., but not<br>
the name per se. There're products with worse names (like GIMP),<br>
which are nevertheless popular.<br>
<br>
I see no reason for renaming Yesod. It's not hard to read (it not<br>
like there's four consonants in a row), it's not hard to remember<br>
(it's 5 letters, are you kidding me?), and it doesn't have to mean<br>
anything (from now on, it will mean "that awesome web framework").<br>
I'd much rather see the Yesod folks contributing more<br>
features/documentation than wasting their with the rename.<br>
<br>
There are another projects with different spellings (my-sequel?<br>
my-es-que-el?). I mean, it's not _that_ bad.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Alexey<br>
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