on naming
"Neal H. Walfield" <[email protected]>
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At Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:32:53 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:59:08PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > Principals (called activities) > > So they are synonymous? Why do you have two words for this concept? The are not the same thing. An activity has specific semantics in the context of my system. If I were to use the same name as the general concept, this might lead to confusion. This is why not all operating systems are named operating system: they are all instances of the idea operating system but they differ in their realization.