To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Brian Beattie <beattie@beattie-home.net>,
       Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Date: 03 Nov 2003 12:55:32 -0800
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    Richard> Yeah. Nobody should ever use a word that's spelled like
    Richard> paradigm!  How about "really good example..." (which is
    Richard> what it means).

    Valdis> No, a paradigm is "a way of looking at things" or "a world
    Valdis> view".  So this would include paradigms like "the world is
    Valdis> flat" or "monolithic kernels are preferable" or "gcc is
    Valdis> the only compiler for the kernel".

Actually "paradigm" has both meanings -- it may mean "example" _or_
"framework."

 - R.
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