From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T04:30:31+09:00
Subject: Re: god 0.1.0 released

On 7/9/07, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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:
Please be aware that God is not really part of Godels name as it is G�del ;)
>
R.

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