Anyone know anything named DX? (was Re: Announcing PyCs)

[Robert Kern]

Mark Hahn wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:19:25 -0800, EP wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jeremy Bowers commented:
> 
> 
>>If you can't come up with a good name, use a letter and symbol or 
>>three (but no more than 3), e.g. C, C++, C#.  Such will be 
>>non-objectionable, but will not help you in getting your 
>>language/technology adopted, or even remembered.
> 
> 
> Well, I gave up on coming up with a good name so I'm taking your advice and
> using DX, for Dynamic Xml language. 

I'd be cautious about that. "dynamic xml" googles up a large number of hits.

> I had a number of cute names like
> groovy but I just couldn't stand the thought of a cute name.  I also had
> acronyms like UDXL but that would get lost in the sea of acronyms.  So my
> web-site will be dx-lang.org and all will be well.
> 
> Does anyone know of any conflicts for DX?  Any existing software projects?
> Any languages?  I know all about all the ham radio stuff but I assume that
> is a non-issue.

There's IBM's Data Explorer (DX) although its most recent incarnation 
has been released as an open source project under the name OpenDX.

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