Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Robert White" <> | Subject | RE: /proc/bus/pci | Date | Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:31:04 -0700 |
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-----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Richard B. Johnson
> I looked up domain in the dictionary and my eyes fell upon > diatribe, which I think describes the most common use of "domain". > Whatever happened to the word "group"? Why don't people just use > the word that was invented to represent commonality? Why do they > have to be "creative" and use words that are way out of context?
I am fairly certain we are still paying the penalty for letting the mathematicians have the first crack at computing back in the pre-history.
"Domain of the problem yields a range of solutions" and all its variations makes "domain" from the "wonderful world of set theory" come creeping up in all of its forms.
I myself am guilty of talking about the "domain of a problem" and I reek at math... 8-)
Rob.
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