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Project names

Posted Apr 15, 2011 16:00 UTC (Fri) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: Project names by robbe
Parent article: TXLF: HeliOS helps schoolkids and challenges developers

hahahaha. I'd not thought about that before.

"Hammer." The -"er" indicates that it effects the thing that it attaches to, e.g. a "carrier" carries and a "flier" flies.

So clearly, a hammer hams. Perhaps it creates hams, or helps in the creation of ham?

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