From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-22 15:16:42
Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>>Seen them, studied them... The most effective ones in the long run
>>> reduce the textual component to the bare minimum.
>> Okay. Not sure how that applies here. Maybe we should drop "C++."
>> :-)
>
> I think that's what both Joaquin and I are saying. Boost by itself, I
> think, is recognizable all by itself. Many people already know what it
> is, well at least many in the developer community. I don't think we
> need the C++ to be explicitly there. And trying to put it there causes
> all kinds of problems because one ends up doing other things to make
> it fit in, re: the "/".
I kind of agree. Iconography.
Hmm.
I think it's worth pursuing the idea of
boost/
where the slash is actually a rocket ascending. I tried to convey
that with an earlier attempt but it probably didn't communicate.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com