<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just my five cents. While I understand the motivation behind the use of Tensor I do think its too mathematical for biologists.<div><br></div><div>Its true that this stuff will be used by programmers who should know.....</div><div><br></div><div>Lets see what the S & S reckon.</div><div><br></div><div>PAvel<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></div></span></div></span></div><div><div>On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Curtis Rueden wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Dscho,<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Yep, just like java.awt.List and java.util.List. Which I need to mix quite<br> a lot of times. But I survive ;-)<br></blockquote> <br>Right—don't you wish they hadn't done that? :-) And in our case it's worse because it is easier to type "java.util" than "mpicbg.imglib.image." Let's change it now while we still can.<br> <br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Keep in mind that we're not necessarily targeting mathematicians. Rather,<br> our typical developer is some random scientist trying to get stuff done in<br> their respective field of research, such as biology.<br></blockquote> <br> By that same argument, Java name clashes are very confusing to a casual programmer.<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> > How about "Img" mirroring the "img" in "imglib"? Kind of ugly but at<br>> least it's unique.<br><br>I actually like it. Two letters less to type!<br></blockquote> <br>So we now have two reasonable possibilities, Img and Tensor. Stephan & Stephan, what do you guys think?<br><br>-Curtis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Johannes Schindelin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de">Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Hi,<br> <br> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Curtis Rueden wrote:<br> <br> </div><div class="im">> For me it a purely practical concern of two classes with the same name<br> > clashing.<br> <br> </div>Yep, just like java.awt.List and java.util.List. Which I need to mix quite<br> a lot of times. But I survive ;-)<br> <div class="im"><br> > How about "Img" mirroring the "img" in "imglib"? Kind of ugly but at<br> > least it's unique.<br> <br> </div>I actually like it. Two letters less to type!<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> Ciao,<br> Dscho<br> <br> --<br> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fiji-devel" group.<br> To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:fiji-devel@googlegroups.com">fiji-devel@googlegroups.com</a>.<br> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:fiji-devel%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">fiji-devel+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br> For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel?hl=en</a>.<br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Johannes Schindelin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de">Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Hi,<br> <br> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Curtis Rueden wrote:<br> <br> </div><div class="im">> > I vote for interface "Tensor".<br> ><br> > Great, much better than the names I suggested!<br> <br> </div>Keep in mind that we're not necessarily targeting mathematicians. Rather,<br> our typical developer is some random scientist trying to get stuff done in<br> their respective field of research, such as biology.<br> <br> I have not met a biologist yet, for example, who understood without<br> explanation what I mean when I used the word 'tensor'.<br> <br> And we're still talking about image processing, not tensor processing.<br> <br> Sure, we could try to do the same as certain *cough cough* companies<br> introducing their own nomenclature. But I do not like this.<br> <br> Ciao,<br> Dscho<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> </font><div><div class="h5">You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fiji-devel" group.<br> To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:fiji-devel@googlegroups.com">fiji-devel@googlegroups.com</a>.<br> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:fiji-devel%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">fiji-devel+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br> For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel?hl=en</a>.<br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> -- <br> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fiji-devel" group.<br> To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:fiji-devel@googlegroups.com">fiji-devel@googlegroups.com</a>.<br> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:fiji-devel+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">fiji-devel+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br> For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel?hl=en</a>.<br> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>