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From: eric@snark.UUCP (EricS.Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Creative site names
Message-ID: <eTJMW#4EnDte=eric@snark.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 18:02:33 GMT
References: <431@ubbpc.uucp>
Organization: Willam Claude Dukenfield Discordian Cabal
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In article <431@ubbpc.uucp>, wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) writes:
> Help yourselves, but check the latest maps and news.newsites first!

Mr. Hutchison, I like the way your mind works.

However, I think it would be only courteous to leave 'eiffel' to that crew
from France that's pushing an object-oriented language by the same name. Note:
I have no connection with them, I just think the Eiffel design is pretty
good and has a few things to teach the C++ crowd.

Myself, I like to name my UNIX boxen after singular creatures from literature,
preferably comic ones. Therefore I have 'snark' and 'golux' (the latter from
James Thurber's _The_Big_O_), and if I ever have a third machine it will
probably be 'hurkle' (from Theodore Sturgeon's _The_Hurkle_Is_A_Happy_Beast_).
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