From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@wirelessnetworksinc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:57:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA80987.6050207@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3EA803DE.9000701@WirelessNetworksInc.com
Herman Oosthuysen wrote:
> To many programmers, computer code 'is' religion. That probably
> explains the migration of religious terms into computer speak. Also,
> to outsiders, computers are magic, which is a close cousin of
> religion, so using the term 'canonize' in its full religious fervour,
> would be very apt...
>
Most certainly.... if we were talking about adding things to the canon,
which we are not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 13:33 How did the Spelling Police miss this one? Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-23 14:53 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-23 16:02 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-23 16:10 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-24 3:39 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24 3:53 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 4:16 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24 4:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-24 23:06 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-27 11:14 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24 4:26 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-24 14:46 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:09 ` viro
2003-04-24 15:44 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 16:06 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:47 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-27 11:09 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24 15:55 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:33 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 15:57 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-24 23:25 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-25 1:39 ` Steven Cole
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3EA80987.6050207@techsource.com \
--to=miller@techsource.com \
--cc=Herman@wirelessnetworksinc.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.