From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 11 3:15:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from octopus.originative (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2F4159A9 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 03:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by octopus with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Tue, 11 May 1999 11:12:59 +0100 Message-ID: From: paul@originative.co.uk To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: [Re: Request For Better Communications] Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:12:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com] > Sent: 11 May 1999 08:52 > To: paul@originative.co.uk > Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: [Re: Request For Better Communications] > > > > I'm sure I've seen fairings being used in commit messages > recently, have we > > adopted it as part of the FreeBSD jargon, what does it mean > in that context? > > It's thrown out in discussion whenever a completely nonsensical > argument in one's favor(?) is called for, I.E. at the end of a really > long thread for which the outcome is no longer even cared about since > everyone is now so sick of it or in rebuttal to another nonsensical > argument ("Change the loader to look for /kernel.pl? What > about fairings?"). Ahh, right, well that makes a whole lot more sense now :-) > > While I'm on this subject, what the hell does GC stand for? > It's used when > > things get deleted. > > Garbage Collect. Another man sadly deprived of LISP in his university > CS curriculum, I see. :-) Unfortunately I'm not so young as to have avoided the joys of LISP, although I only paid enough attention to it to pass the course at the time. Do they still teach it these days? I should have sussed GC, it's obvious now someone's pointed it out to me, fairings I think I can be excused for :-). Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message