From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T20:11:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

On 11/07/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
However, there was no command completion back then. Kill is shorter,
easier to type, even one-handed while eating pizza ;-)
Note that the function in C is called signal, only the user command is kill.

BTW the name of the library reminds me of games that include deities,
both computerized and compter-free. Like the good old Populous ;-)

Michal