Hmm. Come to think about it, there are pretty good candidates amongst star 
names. These are from the apparent brightness Top 20 list:

 Vega, Capella, Rigel, Procyon, Agena, Altair, Acrux, Spica, Antares,  
 Deneb, Mimosa...

Or constellations:

 Carina, Lyra, Aquila, Crux...

Or perhaps asteroids (most of these, as well as the names of other 
planetary bodies in the Sol system, come from Greek or Roman 
mytology):

 Ceres, Pallas, Vesta, Hygeia, Juno...

Or maybe a single Greek letter:

 Zeta, Eta, Lambda, Mu, Xi, Rho, Tau, Phi...

-Johannes

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> Maybe I should make 4 languages named after the 4 elements: earth, air,
> fire, and water.

   Just call it 'Element'

     ~Steve~


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In article <3dbb13cc@news.povray.org>,
 Johannes Dahlstrom <sad### [at] tkukoulufi> wrote:

>  Vega, Capella, Rigel, Procyon, Agena, Altair, Acrux, Spica, Antares,  
>  Deneb, Mimosa...
>  Carina, Lyra, Aquila, Crux...
>  Ceres, Pallas, Vesta, Hygeia, Juno...

I actually considered an astronomical body...you have a better list than 
mine.


> Or maybe a single Greek letter:
>  Zeta, Eta, Lambda, Mu, Xi, Rho, Tau, Phi...

Mu is also Chinese for "nothing", if I remember right...I'll use that 
for my mind-reading compiler.
Aleph would also be good, the only thing close is the open source game 
AlephOne.

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St. wrote:

>> Maybe I should make 4 languages named after the 4 elements: earth, air,
>> fire, and water.
> 
>    Just call it 'Element'

...or "LMN-t" (= "El-em-en-t") ;)

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> >> Maybe I should make 4 languages named after the 4 elements: earth, air,
> >> fire, and water.
> >
> >    Just call it 'Element'
>
> ...or "LMN-t" (= "El-em-en-t") ;)

Oooo, cleaver 8^D

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"Jellby" <jel### [at] M-yahoocom> wrote in message
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> St. wrote:
>
> >> Maybe I should make 4 languages named after the 4 elements: earth, air,
> >> fire, and water.
> >
> >    Just call it 'Element'
>
> ...or "LMN-t" (= "El-em-en-t") ;)

        Nice! I like that better!  :)

      ~Steve~


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Christopher James Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <3DB9E7FB.ECE938C3@pacbell.net>, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>
> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/09/sapphire.html
> 
> Uh-oh...and I was pretty sure the name wasn't taken.

I didn't mean to start a renaming contest. After a thorough read of that
page it looks like the guy did that programming over 2 years ago and it
was done mainly as an exersize rather than as practical end use product.
Were I you I would try to contact the guy who wrote the perl Sapphire routine
and ask if he minds you using the name. Personnaly I kinda like the name
Sapphire, and no offense to those who have offered alternatives, I still
like it the best.

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Andrew Coppin wrote:

>> >> Maybe I should make 4 languages named after the 4 elements: earth,
>> >> air, fire, and water.
>> >
>> >    Just call it 'Element'
>>
>> ...or "LMN-t" (= "El-em-en-t") ;)
> 
> Oooo, cleaver 8^D

Not really, it's one of the hypotheses for the origin of the word "element". 
From www.dictionary.com:

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin elementum, perhaps ultimately 
from lmn, first three letters of the second half of the Canaanite alphabet, 
recited by ancient scribes when learning it.]

;)

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In article <3DBC159E.A377DA7F@pacbell.net>, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> 
wrote:

> Were I you I would try to contact the guy who wrote the perl Sapphire routine
> and ask if he minds you using the name. Personnaly I kinda like the name
> Sapphire, and no offense to those who have offered alternatives, I still
> like it the best.

Took me a while to get around to it, but I contacted him and he has no 
problem with my using the name Sapphire.

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Christopher James Huff wrote:

> Took me a while to get around to it, but I contacted him and he has no
> problem with my using the name Sapphire.

A happy ending.

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