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?". :-) -- g
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