From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T12:11:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

John Joyce wrote:
> 
> 
>> I wonder if the *nix command kill garnered as many wasted keystrokes
>> debating its naming?
> 
> 

Well, I for one don't like the name "kill" for a command/system call
that merely sends a *signal* to a process. "kill" is simply one of the
possible signals it can send. I would have called it "signal". It has
nothing to do with the offensiveness or lack thereof of the name -- it's
simply an overspecialized name for a more general function.