On 6/20/2014 10:08 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 06/20/2014 09:50 AM, Roland Jollivet wrote: >> Why is it called a cape? Is it, as in a cloak? >> > it comes from the shape of the board. Rounded at one end, with > a wide notch at the other end, to clear the Bone's Ethernet > connector.
What? Nothing to do with Underdog, the cartoon superhero beagle? > Otherwise, just pure whimsy. Like the Arduino "sketch", meaning > "application code". If it's binary executable code it's a program. If it's a text file it's a batch file or source code or some other type of script that is not itself an executable program. The blurry middle ground is run-time compiled source code. Several versions of BASIC work that way. You edit the BASIC text source code but when you RUN it, a compiler quickly converts it to a binary executable that either runs on the host OS or in a virtual machine. With some of those you can distribute the compiled executable without the compiler, editor etc. Others rely on functions provided by the programming environment. "App" comes from Application Software, which mutated from Application Program. Both were terms apparently coined by marketing people to sell programs like spreadsheets and word processors to differentiate them from other programs like games. People keep creating new names and terms for old things, supposedly to make technology "less confusing". Bollocks! Using the words that are what they are and teaching newbies the proper words would be the least confusing. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, always was, always should be, not a "KiloBinaryByte" or the ghastly "kibibyte" or KiB for short. We who have worked with computers for 30+ years *know this stuff* and many of us think it's plum stupid to muddy things with new names for the old things. Come up with a new term for 1,000 or 1,000,000 bytes, which are in no way, shape or form a kilobyte or megabyte. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
