Re: EARL - What A Difference A Name Makes

I disagree, this would be contrary to people 's expectation and
jeopardize the adoption of EARL to start from.


> I suggest that EARL should not stand for anything at all, and when
> quizzed, we should just refer people to some of the core discussions
> on ERT about what it should be called. It's perfectly acceptable to
> have an acronym that has no particular expansion. In fact, in the case
> of EARL, every time we've tried to expand it, we've ended up not being
> able to fully capture what we mean.
> 
> The characters "EARL" should be enough to symbolize to anyone who has
> worked on the language enough to recognize the whole "feeling" behind
> the name, and, to people being introduced to the language, they won't
> have some redundant first impression of a language that may need at
> least a thousand words to explain. In other words, "EARL" should
> become a word (acronym) of its very own.
> 
> There are only a few instances of the expansion on the EARL homepage
> anyway - these would be quite easy to remove, and perhaps replace with
> a link to this note, or some XHTML equivalent.
> 
> --
> Kindest Regards,
> Sean B. Palmer
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