[En-Nut-Discussion] RFC: Some kind of library for often needed functions

Harald Kipp harald.kipp at egnite.de
Tue Feb 17 12:49:24 CET 2009


Ole Reinhardt wrote:

>> Let's do it. May be we can find a catching name for this collection.
>>
>> How about gorp?
> 
> gorp? You mean "Good Old Reused Programcode"? I'd vote for something
> more conservative like "libnutcollection" or something like this and
> also would split things something further into encoding / decoding,
> encryption, compression ...

Gorp is "Studentenfutter" (student's feed), a collection of nuts and
raisins. I like your explanation, may be "Good old re-usable programming".

In our setup a directory will be compiled to libnut<dirname>, so gorp
will become libnutgorp. IMHO, libnutcollection is ambiguous and awfully
boring.

Harald





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