From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263725AbTDXP3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:29:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263731AbTDXP3P (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:29:15 -0400 Received: from watch.techsource.com ([209.208.48.130]:978 "EHLO techsource.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263725AbTDXP3P (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:29:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA80987.6050207@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:57:59 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herman Oosthuysen CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> <1051158383.22271.123.camel@spc> <3EA7F8AE.8050402@techsource.com> <3EA803DE.9000701@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.