On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:04:27PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
[...]
> > > > mutmi'i, IMO, is ass.
>
> On the other hand, it occurred to me that software is still software even
> if it's not being run. Is that true of pruce? The English gloss is not
> precise (as to the noun-like or verb-like nature of x1), but the fact that
> pu'u is in nu is a clue that lopruce is event-like. But an argument in the
> other direction is that the definition could easily have included that x1
> is an event, and it doesn't.
>
> If a piece of software is never ever executed, what is "process" about it?
Come now xod, you should know the tricks by now: it's still a {ka'e
pruce}.
Anyway `samselpla' is by far the best lujvo yet proposed for this.
`sampruce' is, however, acceptable.
> Either way, it's a metaphor. Strictly, software is nothing but software.
[...]
It *certainly* is not a metaphor in the way that {mutmi'i} is a
metaphor, if it is a metaphor at all (which it isn't).
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