[jbovlaste] Re: defining "debug"

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:02:39PM +0100, Remo Dentato wrote:
> In lojban, I would expect to have a way to indicate I'm "looking for
> errors/flaw" so I would read {cfisisku} as "proof-read" or "testing"
> or even "debugging" depending on the context.
> 
> I would be in favour of assigning the generic meaning to the lujvo
> {cfisisku}  and add the context around it, It would seem arbitrary, to
> me, to restrict it to "computer debugging".
> 

I agree, and I've neither sufficiently created nor seen from anyone
else a compelling reason to restrict the definition of cfisisku to
computers.  I withdraw that suggestion and replace it by defining
the x2 place to be testing/proofreading.

I like the suggestion created with Alaric that cfisisku is more
closely defined as testing rather than debugging.

We can then use Oren's suggestion to come at the idea of editing or
fixing, and like we're doing for cfisisku here, have a generic
concept that covers the idea applied to the written word or computer
code.

There is the definition cusku'i to cover the idea of editing.
xorxes, "cusku'i" is your definition: Would you give your opinion as
to how (if at all) editing a written work and fixing a computer
program can be expressed as the same generic concept?  Do you like
"cusku'i" better than a lujvo constructed out of try+change/alter to
express "edit"?

-Alan
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