From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6164 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Gould Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Evil in bicategories Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:09:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Gould NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284505882 6599 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2010 23:11:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:11:22 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Sep 15 01:11:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.138]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oveel-0008NI-0T for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:11:19 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:52749) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OvedZ-0004g7-Pi; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:10:05 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OvedT-0002dl-2X for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:09:59 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6164 Archived-At: 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 -- Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so. -- Ford Prefect [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]