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Re: Etymology of `visiting' files
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Udyant Wig |
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Re: Etymology of `visiting' files |
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Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:47:23 +0530 |
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"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> When you visit a friend's home, you enter it, you can look around, and
> you may touch and change something (move a vase from the table to the
> console) or not, and then leave the house.
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> Same with files.
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> visit = (or edit load)
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> edit implies some mutation.
> load implies no mutation.
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> When you visit, you can do either.
That is a nice and reasonable rationale. Thanks.
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Udyant Wig