tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 18 21:18:54 2000
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Re: DawI' and -ghach
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: DawI' and -ghach
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:18:24 EST
I've used the term {De'wI' mIw}, precisely to avoid the issue of
what format the process is embodied in or how exactly the
commands for the procedure are given to the computer.
-- ter'eS
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In a message dated 2/18/00 2:16:10 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> Since a lot of Klingon speakers are computer geeks (and I
> can say that because I am one), many of us have wanted a
> noun for "program", but Klingon doesn't really have one.
>
> Note that you don't have to go back very far in human
> history to predate the existance of this noun having the
> meaning we understand today, and given the changes in
> technology, it might not be very long before the term
> becomes obsolete. Computers may very well not "run" an
> executable "file" for another century, let alone for the
> timetable of the Star Trek universe.
>
> It may very well be that there is an activity that one has
> which gives instructions to a computer, such that we call
> it "programming", but there is no actual program. Instead,
> it is more like teaching the computer to do something and
> the computer then uses what it has learned much as we use
> what we have learned. I don't run a file in order to play
> fiddle, though I definitely have people teaching me to play
> it. Perhaps the language we use to describe these things
> will change. Likely this is the case, and we may very well
> be struggling to find a noun that will quickly become
> obsolete.