From: Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>

Date: March 12, 2010 6:59:20 PM GMT+01:00

To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>, Pharo Development <pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr>, vwnc NC <vwnc@cs.uiuc.edu>

Subject: [squeak-dev] image overload

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Hi All,

    I'm sure Im opening an old topic but anyway, as I was riding the train to work today I saw a shop called "Audio Images" and it struck me how overloaded the term image is, and how poor a term for the contents of the image file Smalltalk image is.  What's in the image is a snapshot of... almost the entire system (minus platform-specific virtual machine and possibly minus sources).  So Smalltalk system file would be a far better term and stsys a more unique file extension (and according to Wikipedia STS is unused too).  I can imagine that changing form image would be hugely expensive in documentation terms (docs, websites, workspaces, etc, etc).  But I can at least dream of a better term.

P.S.  I know, wasting one's time worrying about names.  Almost as bad as worrying about colours

"And the wheel," said the Captain, "What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project."
"Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a little difficulty there."
"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!"
The marketing girl soured him with a look.
"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."