From: "Robert White" <rwhite@casabyte.com>
To: <root@chaos.analogic.com>, "Julien Oster" <lkml@mf.frodoid.org>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
       "LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: /proc/bus/pci
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:31:04 -0700
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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Richard B.
Johnson

> I looked up domain in the dictionary and my eyes fell upon
> diatribe, which I think describes the most common use of "domain".
> Whatever happened to the word "group"? Why don't people just use
> the word that was invented to represent commonality? Why do they
> have to be "creative" and use words that are way out of context?

I am fairly certain we are still paying the penalty for letting the
mathematicians have the first crack at computing back in the pre-history.

"Domain of the problem yields a range of solutions" and all its variations
makes "domain" from the "wonderful world of set theory" come creeping up in
all of its forms.

I myself am guilty of talking about the "domain of a problem" and I reek at
math... 8-)

Rob.

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