[ros-users] Tortoise reference in ROS
Arkapravo Bhaumik
arkapravobhaumik at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 08:29:28 UTC 2011
:-)
Thanks for your reply ....
Extending the same logic - a future ROS version (~2.0) may be named as Ninja
(Turtle) ...
LOL !
Arkapravo
On 22 February 2011 23:37, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> There are several reasons why turtles where chosen:
>
> 1. There are many of them, A-Z
> 2. We like turtles
> 3. It's an allusion to the "world turtle" [1], as well as the Discworld
> turtle
> 4. It's turtles all the way down [2]
> 5. LOGO Turtle, the first "robot" that many of us programmed
> 6. Turtle power!
>
> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle
> [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
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