Re: Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

Best suggestions I've seen so far:

   beginnershaskell.org (I like the plural better too, thanks
Dan)
   helphaskell.org
   questionshaskell.org

let me know your preference (privately, unless you have
anything else to 
add to the discussion).

Cheers,
	Simon
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:04:04 +0100, Simon Marlow
<marlowsdgmail.com>
wrote:

>Best suggestions I've seen so far:
>
>   beginnershaskell.org (I like the plural better too,
thanks Dan)
>   helphaskell.org
>   questionshaskell.org
>
>let me know your preference (privately, unless you have
anything else to 
>add to the discussion).

Thank you, Simon.

Personally, I think that there are problems with all three
names,
though:

beginnershaskell.org:  Although this name definitely captures
the
flavor of the mailing list and also conveys a sense of
community (with
the addition of the 's,' thanks to Dan Licata), the double-n
is easy
to mistake for beginners, and a new user would probably
have
difficulty remembering whether the name was
"beginner" or "beginners"
if a sudden question arose after six months of absence from
the
mailing list.

helphaskell.org:  As Angelos Sphyris pointed out in a
private e-mail
message (which I later forwarded to this mailing list), this
seems to
suggest a general help archive/source complete with manuals,
faqs,
examples etc.  More importantly, it does not suggest a sense
of
community.

questionshaskell.org:  This name limits the scope of the list
to
questions, as opposed to general beginner topics, and does
not seem
appropriate for non-question beginner-related issues.  Also,
this name
does not convey a sense of community.

Since this new list is about beginner issues for Haskell, a
functional
programming language, ideally, the name should
simultaneously be
short, easy to remember, academic, suggest general beginner
issues,
and, if possible, suggest a sense of community.  The best
alternatives
that I have come up with are the following:

alphahaskell.org:  This name denotes a Greek letter used
in
mathematics, is associated with a beginning, is academic,
but does not
really suggest a sense of community.

lambda-alphahaskell.org:  This name denotes two Greek letters
used in
mathematics, ordered so as to denote a beginning of the
lambda-calculus, and is academic, but does not really
suggest a sense
of community.

haskell-alphahaskell.org:  This name denotes a Greek
letter used in
mathematics, is associated with a beginning, is academic,
and suggests
a sense of community.

haskell-lambda-alphahaskell.org:  This name is simply too long
to
remember.

In sum, I suggest haskell-alphahaskell.org.  Any better
alternatives?

-- Benjamin L. Russell

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