Suggested Language Names

The following is an alphabetical listing of suggested names to replace the old name Object X. Of course Opal won out. After each name is a comment to explain it. If their is no comment assume it just sounded cool.

Names:

• Atom - everything is made of objects, like everything is made of atoms. Indivisible
• BOOST - Bettering Object Oriented Standard Technology
• Diamond
• IOOS - Improving Object Oriented Standards
• Objectivity
• Objectus - Latin for object.
• Omicron - Greek Letter O, Greek because that is the alphabet of Lambda, O for Object.
• Objex - shortening of Object X (Jules Milner-Brage)
• Color names - use a bunch of colors close to each other
• Mountain names - names in a given mountain range

Well, it turns out there is a very small langauge already called Opal as well as someone working on a new language named Opal at www.opal-lang.org. So I am again considering new names though not set on changing. Here is some new suggestions then.

New Names:

• something literary?
• Granite
• objx - a shorting of Objex
• Marble - is taken
• Oynx - is taken
• SiO₂ - the chemical makeup of Opal and Onyx (but also quartz and many other things)
• Ore
• Ozark - as in the mountain range

jwalker@cs.oberlin.edu