RE: [Pythoncard-users] possible project names

> > At the end of it all, I find I still prefer PythonCard.
>
> Yes, yes, yes!
>
> I guess I must have missed the beginning of this discussion, but can
> someone please sum up (preferrably in a sentence or two) why we
> wouldn't want to use that name? IMO it has a lot going for it...

Danny Goodman put it this way:
"This thread gets me off my duff because I think the card-ness of
PythonCard's name and any metaphor used to describe its components shackles
it with too much baggage (both good and bad). Those who know HyperCard well
will have certain expectations that PythonCard is not intended to meet;
those who may have only heard of HyperCard will feel like they have to know
something else before getting to know PythonCard.

Hemispherical-floating-arm computers notwithstanding, anything that conjures
up "Apple" in non-Apple users'/programmers' minds is not a plus for the
promotion of a new OS-platform-independent technology, IMHO. If it's a good
authoring environment, it will attract old 'Card farts, like me (...and hi,
Dan!) even if you name it something that would get bleeped on "South Park."

And Kevin will be able to spend more time explaining what it is, rather than
defending what it isn't."

ka