From: Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, gscrivano@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:44:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050804104409.GB4396@kenny.sha-bang.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85hde6rz82.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:30:05AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > Linux is not really a program in the usual sense.
> >
> > It is a program, in the usual sense of the word.
> > You must have some unusual sense of the word in mind.
>
> <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system>
> <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program>
Lets have a look:
Operating system
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software
[...]
... well ...
System software
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
System software is a generic term referring to any computer
software whose purpose is to help run the computer system.
... ok, so it's "computer software", now, what's that?
Computer software
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more
computer programs held in the storage of a computer for some
purpose.
... and here we go, it's a "computer program" (what a surprise) --
your second link. :)
"program" is a very generic term, and I think it's a pretty strange
idea to pretend it isn't...
btw. I think the word for the kind of program you consider the "usual
sense" would be "application".
cheers
sascha
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-28 15:32 emacs & MAXPATHLEN Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-29 0:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-29 0:22 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-29 13:29 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-07-29 13:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-29 18:30 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-30 1:31 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-30 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-30 11:27 ` Jan D.
2005-07-30 11:53 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-07-30 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-30 14:46 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-07-30 17:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-07-30 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-30 18:18 ` Jan D.
2005-07-30 19:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-08-01 0:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-01 8:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-08-01 16:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-01 18:03 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-03 13:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-03 14:09 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-03 23:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-04 6:30 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-04 10:44 ` Sascha Wilde [this message]
2005-08-04 11:13 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-04 14:25 ` Sascha Wilde
2005-08-04 14:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-04 17:57 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-08-04 18:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-04 18:41 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-04 18:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-04 19:07 ` Markus Gritsch
2005-08-01 18:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-08-02 17:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-30 23:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-31 0:05 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-30 11:49 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-07-30 12:23 ` Jan D.
2005-07-30 12:50 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-07-30 12:58 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-30 13:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-07-30 13:38 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-30 12:52 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-30 15:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-30 17:18 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-08-01 0:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-01 13:38 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2005-07-29 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-30 3:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
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