From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 19:22: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E38037BC18 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11185; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:20:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200004050220.TAA11185@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: make world failed In-Reply-To: <200004042349.TAA78471@blackhelicopters.org> from Michael Lucas at "Apr 4, 0 07:49:29 pm" To: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael Lucas) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:20:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: blk@skynet.be, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, Doug@gorean.org, drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Michael Lucas wrote: > I've learned to grok POLA from context as "changing something behind > the scenes that breaks interfaces", but I'm now surrendering to > acronym curiosity: > > What the *heck* does POLA stand for, exactly? Path Of Least Action? From where I come from it meant "Principal Of Least Astonishment". -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message