"Dean Michael Berris" wrote
On 7/4/06, Andy Little wrote:
Hi,
After all the interest in the PQS review, I have opted to rehouse the project on sourceforge and rename the project Quan. I am pleased to announce that the first release of Quan is now available.
Just a side note: in our language here in the Philippines (Filipino), "Quan" is used as an expression when groping for words or referring to something without a name (or which name eludes the person saying it). I think in this case, for lack of a better name for the values/units/quantities "Quan" since it has been a point of contention during the review process, is quite appropriate. ;)
Yes, totally by accident as it happens, it seems the name is very suitable :-) Cromwell Enage remarked on it too. I havent added it to the docs yet, but I will add the retrospective "explanation" of the name in the intro. I notice that the Philippines are quite close to Java, but what symbolism there is there I don't know, except that Java programming language has been reasonably successful ! I hope that holds for the Quan library too. regards Andy Little