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Kipu means in french "who smells" in bad language ...

2009/12/9 Henri Girard <address@hidden>

Le mercredi 09 décembre 2009 à 08:09 +0100, Gubinelli Massimiliano a
écrit :

> (almost crossposting from address@hidden)
>
>
> Dear all,
>  I would like to revive once more the debate on the name for the
> TeXmacs program. There are many reasons for believing that the
> current
> name does not serve very well the popularity of the program. I've
> just
> come across to another possibility (among many other already proposed
>
> and lost somewhere in the internet):
>
>
> *  Quipu (or kipu, or khipu) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu).
>
>
> Apparently this is the ancient way Incas had to keep various kind
> of  informations and seems to mean "knot" so there is some link with
> mathematics and with structured information. The images of Quipus
> make
> me think to trees (of TeXmacs tags).
>
> Here en excerpt of the wikipedia page (nice and worth reading)
>
> "
> Most of the information recorded on the quipus consists of numbers in
>
> a decimal system;[1] see The encoding system below.
> Some of the knots, as well as other features such as color, are
> thought to represent non-numeric information, which has not been
> deciphered. It is generally thought that the system did not include
> phonetic symbols analogous to letters of the alphabet. However Gary
> Urton has suggested that the quipus used a binary system which could
> record phonological or logographicdata.
> "
>
>
> Another possible name :
>
>
> * Tiamat (Tiamat is another mathematical authoring tool)
>
>
> which has the benefit to allow to conserve the extension .tm
>
>
> Best,
> Massimiliano
>
>
> ps: thanks to Martin for correcting my previous post on texmacs-dev.

Please don't choose a name like "maxima" or axiom ! i can tell you to
google such name is really craps ! in maths axiom and maxima being a
maths word !
texmacs is so known... i am french i suggest texbricol (it's a joke !
well a nice name anyway)