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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: FYI: A Truly pd yacc. (zoo or what is in a name)
Message-ID: <1989Sep10.150614.20850@talos.uucp>
Date: 10 Sep 89 15:06:14 GMT
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Dave Curry writes:
 > But it'd be a lot easier if the author would choose some
 > name that isn't already "taken". 

Ozan Yigit writes:
 > Yes, I see this has become a problem of such scale, people have been
 > flaming Bob Corbett, as a way to thank him no doubt. In any case, Bob
 > will probably name it something else shortly. [...]  I had hoped that
 > in this case, need, PD-ness and functionality will transcend the
 > name. I admit my naivete.

I hate to think Corbett has been getting actual flames over this issue.
However, his program should have a unique name to make it easier for people
to find it.  Some archive sites have hundreds of programs available and
have two or different releases of some programs.  It is irritating to
download a program only discover that it is something completely
different that happens to have the same name.

For example, I wanted to get the latest version of Walter Tichy's RCS
(Revision Control System).  I had heard that it was available on UUNET,
so I connected to UUNET, grabbed the ls-lR.Z file, looked up RCS, and
downloaded the files... only to discover that what I had was, in fact,
the "Rochester Connectionist Simulator".  I was not amused.