[ImageJ-devel] Naming [was: Re: [fiji-devel] RegionOfInterestCursor considered misnamed]

[tomancak]

Just my five cents. While I understand the motivation behind the use  
of Tensor I do think its too mathematical for biologists.

Its true that this stuff will be used by programmers who should  
know.....

Lets see what the S & S reckon.

PAvel

On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Dscho,
>
> Yep, just like java.awt.List and java.util.List. Which I need to mix  
> quite
> a lot of times. But I survive ;-)
>
> 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.
>
> Keep in mind that we're not necessarily targeting mathematicians.  
> Rather,
> our typical developer is some random scientist trying to get stuff  
> done in
> their respective field of research, such as biology.
>
> By that same argument, Java name clashes are very confusing to a  
> casual programmer.
>
> > How about "Img" mirroring the "img" in "imglib"? Kind of ugly but at
> > least it's unique.
>
> I actually like it. Two letters less to type!
>
> So we now have two reasonable possibilities, Img and Tensor. Stephan  
> & Stephan, what do you guys think?
>
> -Curtis
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin at gmx.de 
> > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>
> > For me it a purely practical concern of two classes with the same  
> name
> > clashing.
>
> Yep, just like java.awt.List and java.util.List. Which I need to mix  
> quite
> a lot of times. But I survive ;-)
>
> > How about "Img" mirroring the "img" in "imglib"? Kind of ugly but at
> > least it's unique.
>
> I actually like it. Two letters less to type!
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin at gmx.de 
> > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>
> > > I vote for interface "Tensor".
> >
> > Great, much better than the names I suggested!
>
> Keep in mind that we're not necessarily targeting mathematicians.  
> Rather,
> our typical developer is some random scientist trying to get stuff  
> done in
> their respective field of research, such as biology.
>
> I have not met a biologist yet, for example, who understood without
> explanation what I mean when I used the word 'tensor'.
>
> And we're still talking about image processing, not tensor processing.
>
> Sure, we could try to do the same as certain *cough cough* companies
> introducing their own nomenclature. But I do not like this.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
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