Date: 07 Jun 2003 10:50:37 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? Message-ID: <gtn0gtn5ea.0gt@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030607134841.GA13998@online.fr> References: <20030605165217.A388@online.fr> <20030607021309.GC86974@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030607134841.GA13998@online.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: > Whoever wrote the front page recognised that many newcomers will read > "i386" as a pessimisation (eg, will imagine that it doesn't support This thread reminds me of the time I tried to get dates like "1991" off the footers of displayed man pages (e.g., man(1)) for fear of what newcomers/outsiders might think. Or when I tried to replace some system programmer's jargon with something newcomers are more apt to understand. Which brings to mind a great song from one of the few plays I've seen: "Tradition!", from "The Fiddler on the Roof". Now, tradition has it's good uses, but in too many cases it's just a cheap excuse for unatractive motives like the desire to remind others of one's glorious past or the desire to consider others stupid because they don't understand one's jargon.
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