From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T01:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

On 7/13/07, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:32:46 +0900, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > SPS: btw "daemons" is not the same as "demons" - not that either one
> > would be a good, meaningful name. :P
>
> Really?  While "demons" would obviously be a poor name, the ancient
> greek notion of daemons (eudaemons, particularly) seems like a pretty
> decent analogy for such background processes.

I was under the impression that daemon was just an archaic spelling of
demon, honestly.
I guess it has several meanings and the greek notion is the closest to
the technical term, I suppose.