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Re: So, we need a code name...

From:
Peter Scott
Date:
May 6, 2001 11:50
Subject:
Re: So, we need a code name...
Message ID:
4.3.2.7.2.20010506115056.00b4c790@psdt.com
At 08:33 AM 5/6/01 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:31:17AM -0600, Dan Brian wrote:
> > For your collective amuse() abuse() dismiss() I humbly submit:
> >
> >   "duran" (or derivatives)
> >
> > Aside from conjuring images of "reflex", "rio", and maybe "Barbarella"
> > for a select few, the word occurs in some interesting contexts. It means
> > little aside from it being a last name, a city name, and bearing
> > resemblence to some neat stuff. One bummer is the likeness to
> > AMD's "Duron". *shrug*
>
>"durian".

You want to name it after a fruit smelling of dead cows and sewer gas?
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com




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