From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T23:08:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Robert Dober wrote:
>> On 7/11/07, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
>> May I suggest a politically correct rewrite of Posix
>>
>> kill --> signal_process  (aliased to kindly_ask_process_to_leave)
>> rm --> set_file_size_to-1 (kindly_ask_file_to_go_away)
>> rm -r --> put_directory_off_payroll
>> (suggest_directory_existence_limitation)
>> did I miss something else ?
>>
>> Oh well I just forgot to put the smilies !!!
>>
>> Robert
>>
> I once suggested replacing "abend" with "succeed_at_alternate_goal".
> Didn't work.
> 

And of course, there's the famous DOS triple-entendre Abort/Retry/Ignore :)