Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

From: Richard B. Johnson (root_at_chaos.analogic.com)
Date: 11/03/03

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    Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:54:29 -0500 (EST)
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu

    On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

    > On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:17:55 EST, "Richard B. Johnson" said:
    >
    > > Yeah. Nobody should ever use a word that's spelled like paradigm!
    > > How about "really good example..." (which is what it means).
    >
    > No, a paradigm is "a way of looking at things" or "a world view".
    > So this would include paradigms like "the world is flat" or "monolithic
    > kernels are preferable" or "gcc is the only compiler for the kernel".
    >

    No. don't you think I look things up in a dictionary before I
    write a definition?

    The Webster's "New Collegiate Dictionary", 150th Anniversary
    Edition clearly states;

    1. EXAMPLE, PATTERN;esp: an outstandingly clear or typical
    example or archetype.

    It was stolen from the study of languages where it was used
    to exhibit a word in all of its inflectional forms. It has
    been corrupted to mean some "new view" of something while, in
    fact, it is defined to mean EXAMPLE or PATTERN.

    It is particularly irksome to me because I studied Latin in
    High School, where I first encountered this word. My second
    encounter was where somebody corrupted it to mean some kind
    of new idea. Then some idiot named a company Paradigm and
    the end was clear.

    Cheers,
    Dick Johnson
    Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
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