[lojban] Re: open and save

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Steven Belknap wrote:

> The use of the lojban word <dacru> for a computer file is not malglico.
> The analogy of computer file to a paper file is a language-independent
> extension of the concept of file to cyberspace. <vreji> is not an apt
> lojban word for file. A file *contains* records.


I think you mean "record" in the old computer sense, not in the lo vreji
sense.

dacru is a metaphor, but is the essential or best concept of a computer
file as a thing that contains content? Or the content itself?



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// if (!terrorist)
// ignore ();
// else
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