From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T15:11:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:57:40PM +0900, MenTaLguY wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 11:57 +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > There is a reason separate words, with separate spellings, derived from
> > the same ancestral origin, exist at the same time in the same language.
> > One is not simply the kewler spelling than the other.  The cultural
> > ignorance of some people looking for an excuse to be offended by the use
> > of the term "daemon" in no way implies that it's meaning is identical to
> > that of "demon".
> 
> +1

I think I've about broken even, with the minus one for that bizarre lapse
in my apostrophe discipline.  Thanks for providing me the insulation
against slipping into negatives.

Hm.  That almost sounds like a justification for an argument in another
discussion about arrays that's going on in the ruby-talk list right now.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
John W. Russell: "People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use
words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that pointing has
not made words obsolete, there will always be command lines."