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Subject: Re: St.Andersen vs. Deamon 0.87A

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 15:41:14 12/01/01

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On November 30, 2001 at 19:18:33, Benny Antonsson wrote:

> Here is a sneak peak of how Deamon plays:

Please forgive my pedantry; I reckon it's better to be
told this now than later. If "Deamon" is meant to be the
word that means variously "malign spirit", "thing
that runs in the background in a computer", and
"presiding genius", then your spelling is not a
generally approved one.

The following are words:

  - demon
  - daemon
  - daimon

The second and third are equivalents, except that
(at least among computer types) "daemon" is far more
common; writing "daimon" is evidence of having had
too much of a classical education for one's own good.

But "Deamon" isn't a word at all. If it's not meant
to be and there's some other reason for the name, then
I've just wasted your time and I'm sorry about that.
Otherwise -- well, you might want to change, because
if you don't then I predict that 50% of the mail you
get about the program will be saying "Did you know
that you spelt it wrong?". :-)

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