[infinispan-dev] Names, names, names...

[Adrian Nistor]

Alan, thanks for your well thought out suggestion, but for simplicity's 
sake I'll go with Ickle.
That involves far less explaining, just in case anyone asks me what the 
name means :) Occam wins again!

Wait a second.. Occam could have been a pretty good option too ...

Cheers!

On 11/03/2016 06:09 PM, Alan Kash wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I joined this mailing list few weeks back. I am not sure about the new 
> query language work, but I would like to suggest one more name option 
> - *Cantor* -**In the spirit of Georg 
> Cantor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor) who put forward 
> the idea of infinite.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Adrian Nistor <anistor at redhat.com 
> <mailto:anistor at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     So far we have: IQL, Ickle, QuIL, YAQL, LQID, INAQL, INQL, WTF,
>     NSFW, KMFDM.
>
>     I do not like acronyms that are not straight forward. They should
>     really be the initials of the simplest description of what the
>     thing is. In this case the acceptable one would be : Infinispan
>     Query Language => IQL. Unfortunately this seems to mean different
>     things to different people. So let's forget about acronyms and go
>     with ... *Ickle* [1][2][3], proposed by Tristan.
>
>     A very respectable bearded fellow once said: "There are only two
>     hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming
>     things." So let's use this as an excuse and dare to (maybe) settle
>     on a less than perfect name :). At least it is a damn cute one.
>
>     Thanks Tristan for the name!
>     Cheers!
>
>
>     [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ickle
>     <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ickle>
>     [2] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ickle
>     <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ickle>
>     [3] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ickle
>     <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ickle>
>
>
>
>     On 10/28/2016 06:49 PM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>     I like Ickle and LQID personally. And Adrian is way too reasonable on a
>>     name thread ;)
>>
>>     On Mon 16-10-17  9:07, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>>     something trivial and fun for a Monday morning.
>>>
>>>     I've just issued a PR [1] to update the codename for Infinispan 9.0.
>>>
>>>     And while we're at it, let's give a name to the new query language that
>>>     Adrian (and Emmanuel) have designed. We already have a number of
>>>     suggestions (which I summarize below) but please feel free to add your
>>>     own. Please vote.
>>>
>>>     IQL (Infinispan Query Language, already used by others).
>>>     Ickle (Alternate pronunciation of above, also means "small")
>>>     LQID (Language for Querying Infinispan Datagrids)
>>>     QuIL ("Query Infinispan" Language)
>>>
>>>     Tristan
>>>
>>>     [1]https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/4617
>>>     <https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/4617>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Tristan Tarrant
>>>     Infinispan Lead
>>>     JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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