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%p It has been a bit of a journey, but now we have arrived: Salama is officially named.
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%h3#salama Salama
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%p
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Salama is a
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= succeed "." do
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%strong real word
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%p
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It is a word of my
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%strong home-country
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Finland, a finnish word (double plus).
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%p
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Salama means
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%strong lightning
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(or flash), and that is fast (double double plus) and bright.
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%p
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As some may have noticed in most places my nick is
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= succeed "." do
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%strong dancinglightning
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%p
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Also
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%strong my wife
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suggested it, so it always reminds me of her.
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%h4#journey Journey
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%p I started with crystal, which i liked. It speaks of clarity. It is related to ruby. All was good.
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%p
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But I was not the first to have this thought: The name is taken, as i found out by
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chance. Ary Borenszweig started the
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%a{:href => "http://crystal-lang.org/"} project
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already two
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years ago and they not only have a working system, but even compile themselves.
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%p
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Alas, Ary started out with the idea of ruby on rockets (ie fast), but when the
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dynamic aspects came (as they have for me a month ago), he went for speed, to be
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precise for a static system, not for ruby.
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So his crystal is now it’s own language with ruby-ish style, but not semantics.
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%p
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That is why i had not found it. But when i did we talked, all was friendly, and we
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agreed i would look for a new name.
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%p
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And so i did and many were taken. Kide (crystal in finish) was a step on the way,
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as was ruby in ruby. And many candidates were explored and discarded, like broom
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(basic ruby object oriented machine), or som (simple object machine), even ahimsa.
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%h4#official Official
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%p But then i found it, or rather we did, as it was a suggestion from my wife: Salama.
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%p
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After i found the name i made sure to claim it: I published first versions of gems
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for salama and sub-modules. They don’t work off course, but at least the name is
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taken in rubygems too. Off course the github name is too.
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%p So now i can get on with things at lightning speed :-)
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