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"Processing" - Silly name? (Read 1084 times)

zooto68

"Processing" - Silly name?
Oct 28^th, 2008, 12:42pm

is it just me, or is 'Processing' a stupid name for a language? Whenever I try to search on the net for Processing code I find all kinds of other pages that have nothing to do with Processing the language.

For example, have you ever tried searching for Processing code related to Astronomy? The word 'Processing' is heavily used in astronomy and astrophotography so it is a nightmare sorting the wheat from the chaff.

I am aware it used to be called Proce55ing, which is a unique word and if searched for in Google for example would defiantely only bring up pages related to the language so why is it not still called that?

Amateur Astronomer/Astrophotographer and Electronics Hobbyist.

memo Ex Member	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #1 - Oct 28^th, 2008, 3:17pm Try searching for http://www.google.com/search?q="processing.org"+astronomy

zooto68 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 37 England	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #2 - Oct 28^th, 2008, 4:35pm Not much better to be honest. Too many pages that list processing.org and astronomy but are not mutually linked.
	Amateur Astronomer/Astrophotographer and Electronics Hobbyist.

Ira Full Member Offline Posts: 238 Dallas	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #3 - Oct 28^th, 2008, 7:07pm When I enter "processing" in google, 1st 5 entries are indeed related to "our" processing. If memory serves me correctly there was another obscure language developed some time ago that was also "foolishly" named–but by a single letter near the beginning of the alphabet.
	Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art http://friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=159059617X The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430219798 Center of Creative Computation Meadows/Lyle SMU, Dallas

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #4 - Oct 28^th, 2008, 8:03pm what's done is done; the name of the project will not be changed. it's neither a "stupid" nor "silly" name, but it could have been better selected. thanks to memo and irag for helpful suggestions.

zooto68 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 37 England	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #5 - Oct 29^th, 2008, 9:34am Don't get me wrong here - I absolutely love Processing. I am a huge fan. It's just I find searching for code examples on the net a real pain cos of the name that's all. Thanks for the replies guys.
	Amateur Astronomer/Astrophotographer and Electronics Hobbyist.

mhuyck

Re: "Processing" - Silly name?
Reply #6 - Oct 29^th, 2008, 7:43pm

I find it amusing that people are faulting the name choice and not Google here. If you're having trouble finding what you want using the search engine, shouldn't that be a complaint directed at Google?

I, for one, would love to see better support for "context sensitive" searches in Google. For example, what we really want is a search for "Processing" among "art and design" or "programming" web sites. This can be done manually, but Google could make this far more intuitive.

fjen

Re: "Processing" - Silly name?
Reply #7 - Oct 30^th, 2008, 5:29pm

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=filetype:pde+astronomy

… and there's filetype specific search as well.

i think "Processing" is a good name for the project (i refuse to call it a language). if you ever get to teach people the concepts of computer languages you'll know why. and i'm happy the hackerish "Proce55ing" is gone.

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mhuyck YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 45 MA	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #8 - Oct 30^th, 2008, 6:54pm Nice "filetype" trick! Thanks. For those who don't read German very well, try this: http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=filetype:pde+astronomy

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #9 - Oct 30^th, 2008, 7:14pm right, sorry about the ".de" .. seemed to have defaulted to that. F

32Q2

Re: "Processing" - Silly name?
Reply #10 - Nov 1^st, 2008, 1:13pm

Regarding mhuyck's comment about more intuitive context sensitive searching - Clusty does fairly well in this regard :

http://clusty.com/

If you try searching for just 'processing', it then offers you a choice of 'clusters' of results, so you can choose to see just pages about this project and not say, credit card processing. I think it basically just automates what you can do manually in google. Its not perfect but it helps.

I agree we could all do with better search engines, and no doubt google are working on it too. Maybe thats why Ben and Casey did it - just to keep them on their toes ;)

dog_opus YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3 U.S.A.	Re: "Processing" - Silly name? Reply #11 - Nov 4^th, 2008, 4:48am I think the name is awesome, although, yeah, it can be hard on Google. I have found, however, that a lot of people seem to refer to it as "proce55ing" (figure fives rather than esses), which turns up lots of results.

koogy

Re: "Processing" - Silly name?
Reply #12 - Nov 5^th, 2008, 10:53pm

it's not just searching that's a problem with the name but the amount of people who add randomly processed photos to the processing flickr pool (tends to be people with english as a foreign language, i've noticed). i've started leaving comments pointing out that they've posted them to an inappropriate group but i hate doing it and can't phrase it in a way that doesn't sound rude.

still, at least it's better than the garbage that gets erroneously posted to the Generative And Evolutionary Art pool. (RR, ZP, i'm looking at you and your Bryced nonsense)

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