Re: Project Name?

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Geoff Leyland
<geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please excuse me if this is a bit off-topic, but I need a name for a
> project, and I wondered if the list could help.
>
> I'm writing a binding to math programming libraries, and a math modeling
> system to build math programming problems.  At the moment I just call it
> LuaLP (for Lua ?Linear Programming), but I don't really think it's good
> enough.
>
> Following tradition, an ideal name would be:
>  - moon related
>  - Portuguese
>  - have a connection to math or math programming (phrases such as
> "optimisation", "linear programming", "math programming", "operations
> research", "the science of better")
>
> The best I've done so far is "apollo", which is moon-related, not really
> Portuguese, and its only connection with linear programming is that it has
> l's and p's in it.
>
> Any suggestions?

How about Luarrays (a juxtaposition of both Lua Arrays and Lua Rays,
or moon beams ?).

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