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The word for computer "daemon" has an etymological connection to the daemon you are linking to here, it does not mean that it is the same word.
by anyfoo 11y ago
The word for computer "daemon" has an etymological connection to the daemon you are linking to here, it does not mean that it is the same word.
- Dylan16807 11y agoWhen you take an existing word and add a trade-specific meaning, you are not creating a new word.
- anyfoo 11y agoIf that were the true, Etymology itself would be meaningless, because words coming from other words would be considered "the same".
- anyfoo 11y agoIf that were the true, Etymology itself would be meaningless, because words coming from other words would be considered "the same".
- geofft 11y agoYes, but the spellings valid in the trade context may differ from the spellings valid for the other meanings of the word. Consider "dialog" vs. "dialogue", or "disc" vs. "disk" (which have different connotations for the two spellings).
- corysama 11y agoyep > According to Fernando J. Corbato who worked on Project MAC in 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Etymology I'd appreciate the cool factor if computing stuck with the ligature, but I wouldn't appreciate looking up how to type it every time.
- nitrogen 11y agoI'd appreciate the cool factor if computing stuck with the ligature, but I wouldn't appreciate looking up how to type it every time. Just for the curious, in Vim (possibly other Vi derivatives?) you can press Ctrl-K, A, E in sequence: æ (copy/pasted from my terminal).