On Wednesday 2007 February 28 03:33, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So a "tree-ish" is not necessarily exactly a tree, but it has all the > characteristics of a tree (by virtue of there being a well-defined 1:1 > relationship with a tree). Funny; I'd always guessed that it came from Lord of the Rings, which (I think) often mentioned "Ent-ish" as being the language of the trees. Then the happy coincidence of the English idiom usage meaning "approximately" was just a happy bonus. Shocking: something geeky that didn't have an association with Lord of the Rings. What will they think of next? :-) Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html