Site issues, plans

[Ken Causey]

Well, on the hyphens issue...  My opinion is to avoid punctuation if
possible.  Imagine that you are on the radio having to communicate the
site URL.  Also imagine that someone is trying to remember the URL a
week later having only heard it.  I think the tendency would be to
forget the hyphen.  Especially since it would be often be left out when
saying the URL unless you spell it out.

Also I'm disinclined towards abbreviations and would prefer the full
forms.  However long URLs are also a problem.  Why not get both 'lang'
and 'language' versions if available and have both?

My 2 cents,

Ken

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 20:28 -0800, Brian Rice wrote:
> Yeah, I agree, and I don't want to play the "whose camp are we in"  
> political game.
> 
> So if it's "slate language", which of the ways to write it would be  
> best? Ruby has ruby-lang.org.
> slatelang.org, slate-lang.org, slate-language.org.
> 
> I could always confuse things a little and talk about the "Slate  
> environment" or something like that, since the language will  
> eventually look less like what it is now and probably be more  
> federated in some distant future. "slate-env.org", "slate-world.org",  
> "slate-os.org"? :P
> 
> Maybe the solution is slate.info... argh, that's taken, too.
> 
> Marketing of the things I'm too familiar with gets on my nerves...  
> hopefully someone who doesn't feel like an insider can shed some  
> light on what makes sense.
> 
> On Dec 31, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Chuck Adams wrote:
> 
> > On 12/30/05, Bill Sun <billksun at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> These are also available:
> >>
> >> slate-smalltalk.org
> >> slate-language.org
> >
> > Smalltalk has legacies that have turned many off in the past.  The way
> > I see it, Slate is not Smalltalk, but based on it. If it diverges even
> > more, I say let it.
> >
> > Ergo, I suggest slate-language.org.
> >
> > chuck
> 
> --
> -Brian
> http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf
> 
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