[knowtheory]

Thanks i'm aware of my Renaissance art, but the things that connected Donatello the artist to Raphael the artist is being italian and a gap of nearly 20 years, in the reverse order you would think, given that there are now two derivative libraries built on Raphael named Donatello.

The ninja turtles connection is, even if you were talking about the artists, the more likely link :P

[mitjak]

I personally never even made the turtles connection and assumed that, since they are drawing libraries, they are surely referring to the artists.

[damncabbage]

Same, but knowtheory's point rings true now that I've stopped to think about it. (That is, the "witty" pop-culture tie-in being the more likely reason as to why two libraries that do similar things to one named after an unrelated artist got named after the same sculptor.)

[JonnieCache]

Erm, the turtles are named after the painters. The other two were called Michelangelo and Leonardo. It isn't a coincidence.

[knowtheory]

I am aware that the turtles are named after the artists.

If you'll note, even a cursory scan of the artist's wikipedia pages would indicate that Donatello is primarily remembered as a sculptor, and Raphael for his pencil and painted works.

My point is, save for being Renaissance artists, the two have nothing in common, except that they're both Italian, and both had Ninja Turtles named after them.

[0x12]

> The ninja turtles connection is, even if you were talking about the artists, the more likely link :P

I know about Donatello, that ninja turtles thing has fortunately passed me by. If you hadn't mentioned it I had never known there was such a thing as a 'donatello ninja turtle' and now I need to purge my storage of this utterly useless factoid.

[knowtheory]

I don't appreciate the downvote. I've pointed out a nomenclature issue, pointed out why i think it's a bad choice. If you disagree with me, fine. But this isn't reddit. Defend your point instead.

[0x12]

Your problem with downvotes is yours, if you don't want to risk being downvoted you should probably not comment here. It happens. This 'not being reddit' (or slashdot for that matter) has nothing to do with it.

Downvotes are a way to push non-relevant comments to the bottom of the discussion. And I really believe this ninja turtles stuff is a waste of space, I frankly don't have any desire to see stuff like that on HN.

As for my point, I think enough bits and unique ids have been wasted explaining it, if you wish to hold on to your position that the ninja turtles are the first thing that comes to mind when you hear Donatello that is entirely your problem.