Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263153AbTKCUyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:54:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263171AbTKCUyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:54:22 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:9344 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263153AbTKCUyR (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:54:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:54:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu cc: Brian Beattie , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right In-Reply-To: <200311032023.hA3KN3gv000750@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: References: <1067778693.1315.76.camel@kokopelli> <200311021715.hA2HFXr5026778@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1067888137.869.26.camel@kokopelli> <200311032023.hA3KN3gv000750@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1602 Lines: 44 On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:17:55 EST, "Richard B. Johnson" said: > > > Yeah. Nobody should ever use a word that's spelled like paradigm! > > How about "really good example..." (which is what it means). > > No, a paradigm is "a way of looking at things" or "a world view". > So this would include paradigms like "the world is flat" or "monolithic > kernels are preferable" or "gcc is the only compiler for the kernel". > No. don't you think I look things up in a dictionary before I write a definition? The Webster's "New Collegiate Dictionary", 150th Anniversary Edition clearly states; 1. EXAMPLE, PATTERN;esp: an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype. It was stolen from the study of languages where it was used to exhibit a word in all of its inflectional forms. It has been corrupted to mean some "new view" of something while, in fact, it is defined to mean EXAMPLE or PATTERN. It is particularly irksome to me because I studied Latin in High School, where I first encountered this word. My second encounter was where somebody corrupted it to mean some kind of new idea. Then some idiot named a company Paradigm and the end was clear. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/