From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-07-10T04:27:28+09:00
Subject: Re: god 0.1.0 released

Wayne E. Seguin wrote:
> On Jul 09, 2007, at 15:05 , Todd Burch wrote:
>> Why would you pick the name "god"?  Surely there are more appropriate
>> names for a piece of software.
>>
>> Todd Burch (yes, I am a Christian)
> 
> haha! I was waiting for a comment on that!
> 
> To me the name makes much sense because that is effectively what the 
> "piece of software" does, it plays god with the lives of daemons and 
> processes. Hence seems to be named very well to me.

Maybe "god" is simply an acronym, as proposed by Douglas Hofstadter:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=god+over+djinn

You can s/djinn/daemon/ if you like.

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