Going Live

The Hibachi (ADT) proposal is now online and open for comments at http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/adt/ and the newsgroup news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.tools.adt .

People will have surely noticed that the project is known by two names, ADT and Hibachi. ADT is the acronym for the official project name (Ada Development Tools). Hibachi is a codename. I noticed that Eclipse allows projects to be known by codenames (like Mylar). I thought that a codename would be a good way to pay tribute to Jean Ichbiah, the chief designer of Ada who had passed away just the month before. Also, although we (Aonix) tried to always refer to our plugin as AonixADT, to avoid confusion with an eventual Eclipse ADT project that we had envisioned, there was some namespace creep which I didn't think would be helpful when it came time to build a community. So while the project will be known as ADT, which is unavoidable for a sibling of CDT and JDT, I will try to use Hibachi whenever possible in memory of Jean Ichbiah and to avoid confusion with the Aonix product.

As far as the name Hibachi, until I hit on it, the leading candidate was Beaujolais, after the Beaujolais Effect. Others suggested "Green", Jedi, Kermit, and various more obscure references that have meaning for the old-timers here at Aonix, the company that Jean started to turn the Ada language he designed into a technology and products.

I only came up with one complete anagram for Ichbiah- Hibachi.