Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 23:27:51 EST From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: All the good ones are taken. Message-ID: <199502151327.XAA21672@pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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I'm of the opinion that there aren't many good names out there. So I was rather surprised to find that such a good name as "chat" has been taken by a lowly dialer program! Yes, the PPP dialer program. This is a behind-the-scenes program, so it can be called anything, as ugly as you like. How about "dial-me-up-a-ppp-host-thanks", or even "pppdial". What set me off today? Well, I'm one of the crowd of people who wrote a chat program, before IRC cornered the market. I call it "chat". I want to vote PPP "chat" out of its spot, and leave the name free! I want to dust off my old program and play with it, maybe even give it away. I now know that /usr/bin/chat has been around at least since 1.1, so this is a rather late gripe, but it's still what I want. Even if "chat" is forever lost to ppp, I ask you all to consider your naming carefully. Those ANSI C people care about their name space. Does POSIX? I think we should too. Stephen (Concerned Conservationist) McKay.
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