[stringtemplate-interest] Sourcerer?

[Terence Parr]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Barnes, Jeff wrote:

> Why do you think StringTemplate as a name sucks?

well it's too generic and too simple sounding I guess.

> I have made a lot of presentations about StringTemplate and have been
> through many design/code reviews where its role was highly visible. In
> my circles, it has a lot of name recognition. There could be perhaps
> some perception of instability if its name were to change at this  
> point.

Yeah, we'll keep it as-is.

>> From a marketing perspective, is StringTemplate more descriptive of  
>> what
> it does than Sourcerer?
>
> There may be some brand collision with Velocity because its common  
> name
> in some development shops is Velocity Templates. Does this suggest  
> that
> StringTemplate has a stronger name than Velocity? What are your
> strategic goals for changing the name?

Well, i like to have good names like ANTLR and Mantra etc...  ST was  
just a code name that stuck ;)

Ter