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- From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
- Subject: Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.115602.29015@nntp.nta.no>
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- Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
- References: <binky-060892095941@192.100.87.190> <1992Aug8.000308.20539@moe.einstein.com> <1992Aug12.231903.20168@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 11:56:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.231903.20168@afterlife.ncsc.mil>, David P. Kemp writes:
- >
- > Sun must also remove the ABRT signal, since it is guaranteed to cause hard
- > feelings all around. They thought they were being clever, leaving out
- > a vowel, but we all know it means ABORT!
-
- Guess David didn't find the smiley-keys on the keyboard...
-
- I agree that naming concepts should be done with great care, avoiding
- potentially loaded (or overloaded) words. (I wouldn't call `abort'
- overloaded, it's only got two interpretations in my dictionary...)
- One of the nice things with english is that it's a rich language in
- terms of words.
-
- However, if we should avoid all words that may offend some group of
- people in all english-speaking countries we're going to have a hard
- time. (Are australians offended by logging in as the UNIX super-user?)
-
- ---
- Haakon Styri
-