Suggestion for F19

[Stephen Berg (Contractor)]

On 10/22/2012 09:44 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> A release name is just a way to identify a set, and if Gingerbread and 
> Ice Cream Sandwich are okay, why not Beefy Miracle? Essentially none 
> are "meaningful," simply unique identifiers used to facilitate 
> identification. It is a lot less likely to say the wrong version when 
> they are unlike than to say an incorrect Windows version.
>
> If I can find a copy of my essay on naming units I'll post a link, 
> Google can't find it. IIRC the original title was "Disambiguation of 
> unit names in scientific nomenclature" and the proceedings replaced it 
> with "What's in a Name?" and used the original title as a subtitle in 
> the article itself.
Wasn't this basic line of reasoning the same used to start giving names 
to hurricanes?

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