Author: Benny Antonsson
Date: 15:49:33 12/01/01
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On December 01, 2001 at 18:41:14, Gareth McCaughan wrote: >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 We know... we first selected the word Deamon and thought it was the right spelling. After a while we realized that it was wrong, and ever since then we have argued about changing the name or not... we haven't really decided yet... any suggestion of a new name ? Or should we just spell it right ?
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