Who invented that name and why is it spelled the wrong way?
There was a time this lib was called Diet (Differentiable Improved
Expression Templates), but most mail correspondence about it was swallowed by
spam filters like exim. So a long search for a new, yet unique name started.
Finally Markus Werle started a mail-based contest to obtain a new name for the
game.
Alexander Voss and Arne Barinka proposed to call it Dextrose and
to probably replace "ex" with "aix" to underline the fact that this library was
invented at Aachen, Germany, which is called "Aix la Chapelle" by native French
speakers. (To those who never heard about Aachen: it's a small unimportant town
with an important University of
Technology)
Since people from dextrose.com disliked the reuse of "dextrose", Arne's and Alex'
proposal was accepted.
Special thanks go to Arne and Alex for finding a unique name (search google)
at the beginning of the 21st century, a few days before all names belonged to someone.
