From: Miles Gould <miles@assyrian.org.uk>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Evil in bicategories
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:09:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OvedT-0002dl-2X@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OusX4-0001yt-Dx@mlist.mta.ca>
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 02:38:09PM +0200, JeanBenabou wrote:
> Maybe my english isn't so "beautiful", but in all cases where "evil"
> has been used, what is wrong with "wrong" instead?
An obvious reason not to do this is that "wrong" can also mean
"incorrect" in English, and plenty of definitions are evil but correct.
[It's probably irrelevant, but the term "evil" is well-established among
programmers in a broadly similar sense: "evil does not imply incompetence
or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally
incompatible with the speaker's". See
http://catb.org/jargon/html/E/evil.html .]
Miles
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 2:05 David Leduc
2010-09-11 23:23 ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-12 1:28 ` David Roberts
2010-09-12 6:03 ` Jocelyn Paine
[not found] ` <20100911232358.GA32145@ugcs.caltech.edu>
2010-09-12 6:27 ` David Leduc
[not found] ` <AANLkTimbfG0tkjSNZgjL2yADBHnKAXQiHYsAkioEnxJY@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-12 7:31 ` Toby Bartels
[not found] ` <20100912073136.GA9115@ugcs.caltech.edu>
2010-09-12 10:22 ` David Leduc
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=ZLdVcbvaHPaCfaZhzyDYCdwLNUQTj-5fNZ4p4@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-12 17:13 ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-12 12:38 ` JeanBenabou
2010-09-13 0:16 ` David Roberts
2010-09-13 22:28 ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-14 22:32 ` Richard Garner
2010-09-14 15:09 ` Miles Gould [this message]
2010-09-12 16:52 ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
2010-09-14 6:28 Michael Shulman
2010-09-15 1:12 Vaughan Pratt
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