Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents
called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places.
Here's a brief link explaining the specific Cambodian meaning -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_(mythology)#N.C4.81gas_in_Cambodia
I like this as a name, because it's unique short and easy to type and
remember (as long as you omit the accent, which is commonly done),
it's basically a southeast-asian dragon, so we're sticking with
traditional compiler iconography, and it's seven-headed, so it nicely
represents the many different uses LLVM can be put to.
It's also pretty easy to imagine a logo, because Cambodian Nāga
sculptures are pretty memorable as is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NagaPhnomPenh.jpg
They're all over Angkor, too. I picture a simplified line-drawing of a
seven-headed serpent like the one in the image.
For what it's worth, there are also a couple other good-sounding Asian
dragon names on the wikipedia page for Nāga: "Lóng" (Chinese),
"Ryū"
(Japanese), and my second-favorite after Nāga, "kyo" ("Korean
mountain
dragon"), which has nice consonance with "compiler".
-mike
--
Michael McCracken
UCSD CSE PhD Candidate
research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/
misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/
FWIW, Naga means serpent in Sanskrit and is used as a short form for Nagaraja, a king of snakes in Hindu mythology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagaraja The seven-headed dragon theme seems more relevant for our purposes, though! I should clarify that I haven't yet formed an opinion on specific name suggestions (partly because I haven't yet read most of them!). --Vikram http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/ On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:> Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents > called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places. > > Here's a brief link explaining the specific Cambodian meaning - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_(mythology)#N.C4.81gas_in_Cambodia > > I like this as a name, because it's unique short and easy to type and > remember (as long as you omit the accent, which is commonly done), > it's basically a southeast-asian dragon, so we're sticking with > traditional compiler iconography, and it's seven-headed, so it nicely > represents the many different uses LLVM can be put to. > > It's also pretty easy to imagine a logo, because Cambodian Nāga > sculptures are pretty memorable as is: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NagaPhnomPenh.jpg > They're all over Angkor, too. I picture a simplified line-drawing of a > seven-headed serpent like the one in the image. > > For what it's worth, there are also a couple other good-sounding Asian > dragon names on the wikipedia page for Nāga: "Lóng" (Chinese), > "Ryū" > (Japanese), and my second-favorite after Nāga, "kyo" ("Korean > mountain > dragon"), which has nice consonance with "compiler". > > -mike > > -- > Michael McCracken > UCSD CSE PhD Candidate > research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ > misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Michael McCracken wrote:> Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents > called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places.naga.org already exists, though. We probably want to have the .org available. I like the dragon theme but most of the familiar dragon names are taken. The Hydra of Greek mythology was a dragon-like creature with multiple heads, and hydra.org seems not to exist.
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:34 -0700, Dale Johannesen wrote:> On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: > > > Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents > > called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places. > > naga.org already exists, though. We probably want to have the .org > available. > I like the dragon theme but most of the familiar dragon names are taken. > > The Hydra of Greek mythology was a dragon-like creature with multiple > heads, > and hydra.org seems not to exist.Or an alternate Sanskrit word for serpents "Sesha" ..> > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev-- Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan at codito.com> codito ergo sum
On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:> Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents > called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places.Interesting, my only comment is if we pick this we need to just spell it Naga. Naga are also snake people in D&D (yea... I know).> > Here's a brief link explaining the specific Cambodian meaning - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_(mythology)#N.C4.81gas_in_Cambodia > > I like this as a name, because it's unique short and easy to type and > remember (as long as you omit the accent, which is commonly done), > it's basically a southeast-asian dragon, so we're sticking with > traditional compiler iconography, and it's seven-headed, so it nicely > represents the many different uses LLVM can be put to. > > It's also pretty easy to imagine a logo, because Cambodian Nāga > sculptures are pretty memorable as is: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NagaPhnomPenh.jpg > They're all over Angkor, too. I picture a simplified line-drawing of a > seven-headed serpent like the one in the image. > > For what it's worth, there are also a couple other good-sounding Asian > dragon names on the wikipedia page for Nāga: "Lóng" (Chinese), > "Ryū" > (Japanese), and my second-favorite after Nāga, "kyo" ("Korean > mountain > dragon"), which has nice consonance with "compiler". > > -mike > > -- > Michael McCracken > UCSD CSE PhD Candidate > research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ > misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
This idea sounds interesting. I found some other many-headed dragons in Wiki: Dahaka, Lotan (or Lawtan*) *and Orochi. From these for only Orochi.com/org and lotan.org are already taken. Personally I like the Dahaka one. If developing the idea of multiheaded beasts one could think about Russian two-headed eagle at last. :))) or Shiva, probably. As for ideas, I thought about taking some simple word like "open", "enlightment", "freedom" or so and translate it to some mystique language :) but it seems that the only one such a good word was already used by ubuntu... Probably, someone knows some comfortable world. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20070412/a82fd909/attachment.html>
On 4/12/07, Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple.com> wrote:> > On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: > > > Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents > > called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places. > > naga.org already exists, though. We probably want to have the .org > available. > I like the dragon theme but most of the familiar dragon names are taken. > > The Hydra of Greek mythology was a dragon-like creature with multiple > heads, > and hydra.org seems not to exist. >It's also a moon around Pluto (along with Nix and Charon (which starts with "CH" like Chris's name)). All of them, though, have to do with Hades. Not sure if it's a good association ;-) -bw
On 4/12/07, Patrick Meredith <pmeredit at uiuc.edu> wrote:> > On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: > > > Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents > > called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places. > > Interesting, my only comment is if we pick this we need to just spell > it Naga. > Naga are also snake people in D&D (yea... I know). >And a monster you get to kill in Nethack ;-) -bw