Re: [Pythoncard-users] possible project names

OK, when I'm helping clients name things, a technique I often use is 
to start with the idea that the name of a company or product ought to 
ring out with a clear (if not necessarily complete) description of 
what the thing _is_.

And at the same time, a thing as whimsical as Python (in nomenclature 
only) encourages its spinoffs and supporting cast to be equally 
whimsical, no?

OK, so bear with me.

What is a term used to mean "the ultimate and perhaps almost 
unattainable goal of a particular group or clan?" And what movie did 
Monty Python make that had an identical name?

Holy Grail.

OK, you hate that? How about the fact that this program helps you 
create UIs and applications in Python and call it:

Python's Own Terrific, Trenddy User Interface (POTTUI...which has 
lots of interesting twists.)

Yeah, I know. Pretty bad. Gimme a break. This isn't easy, ya know!

I suppose it would be presumption of the first rank for us to pre-empt:

Sensational Python Application Machine (ahem)

Alright, alright. Now I'll get serious.

I'm going to assume that a certain amount of irreverence is OK here, 
that we don't expect Blue Suits to buy into this cool stuff anyway, 
that we're building this for other people who are either like us or 
wannabe. (Come to think of it, I'm not sure which of those categories 
_I_ belong in!)

Snake Oil (greases the skids of Python development)
Making Python Fully Creative (MPFC - get it?)
BrainFile (rearranging letters in Life of Brian)
Visual Python (vPython) - suffers from a too-close link to VB?
PIE (Python Interface Editor)

At the end of it all, I find I still prefer PythonCard. And I think 
PythonCard gives us a wonderful target at which to aim. In the 
interim, however, we may want to release other products that are 
intermediate in nature, the building blocks of what will ultimately 
be PythonCard.

I'm working on another note, which I may finish tonight at least 
sufficiently to risk pushing it out via this list, that describes in 
non-technical terms what about HyperCard I think is so immensely 
worth preserving in our new endeavor.

And for my part, while I'm delighted to contribute where I can to the 
intermediate product development -- and irrespective of our final 
naming decision -- I am ultimately drawn to this effort by the 
tantalizing notion of being able to do HyperCard better than anyone 
has done it.
-- 
Dan Shafer, Author-Consultant
http://www.danshafer.com
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