On 10/22/2012 09:44 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
A release name is just a way to identify a set, and if Gingerbread and
Ice Cream Sandwich are okay, why not Beefy Miracle? Essentially none
are "meaningful," simply unique identifiers used to facilitate
identification. It is a lot less likely to say the wrong version when
they are unlike than to say an incorrect Windows version.
If I can find a copy of my essay on naming units I'll post a link,
Google can't find it. IIRC the original title was "Disambiguation of
unit names in scientific nomenclature" and the proceedings replaced it
with "What's in a Name?" and used the original title as a subtitle in
the article itself.
Wasn't this basic line of reasoning the same used to start giving names
to hurricanes?
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