Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:56:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thimble Smith <tim@mysql.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: showstopper Message-ID: <20000302095607.D2905@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000301150810.J6645@threads.polyesthetic.msg> References: <20000301150810.J6645@threads.polyesthetic.msg>
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On Wednesday, 1 March 2000 at 15:08:10 -0500, Thimble Smith wrote: > The word "showstopper" has shown up quite a few times on -current > recently, in reference to various problems that absolutely must be > fixed before 4.0 can be released. But I just have to let this out; > a "showstopper" is something really *good*, not something really > bad. I should say that the work that's been done on NFS is a real > showstopper. The threads package is a showstopper. > > I just think it'll be too bad if we lose that word entirely from > the English language. It's such a nice thing, I think it's tragic > for it to get smeared like that. I think one of the interesting things about language is that it evolves. "Hardware" no longer has the meaning it had sixty years ago. In release terminology, the word "showstopper" has no ambiguity: it's bad. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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