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Re: [zigzag] GZigZag 0.5.0 has been released]
- To: ZZ Development <zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [zigzag] GZigZag 0.5.0 has been released]
- From: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:51:09 +0200
- In-reply-to: <f05010404b69215e1fee0@[192.168.0.3]>; from eharter@xxxxxxxxx on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:34:25AM +0900
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- Sender: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On 20010123T023425+0900, Edward Harter wrote:
> P.S. AJ, I think you may be confusing 'stasis' as in, 'we put him
> into the Chrono-Warp field for thirteen centuries, and when we
> finally released him from his stasis he hadn't changed or aged one
> iota'; with 'stable', as in 'the Gossamer Condor, though not as
> reliable as a 747-400 or an Airbus, was stable enough, and safe
> enough, to be pedaled across the English Channel by one man, thereby
> vindicating both the dreams of the inventor and the excellence of the
> engineering team who built this human-powered plane, in its triumphal
> flight.'
No, I'm not. "Stable" is a common term in software development, and in
that context it means that the software is not a moving target.
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