Hmm - in the UK we think Mathematics is plural - so you should be a
MATHS major - but what do I know
I was just a dumb cop!
:-)
Tom
GM4FDM
Fred Jensen wrote:
David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
I would agree, but in the software world, build is a process or
function and 'doing a build' is
Please help the English language maintain some
little bit of coherence and do not use build as
a noun, as in Did we do a build today?
Better and already established as English,
and not techno-speak, is Did you build it today?
Is Eubonics next?
Thanks so much, 73
Charles Harpole
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I would agree, but in the software world, build is a process or
function and 'doing a build' is what you actually do to produce a
program, sometimes the command is even called 'build'.
In this case, it might be argued that asking if 'we did a build today'
is more correct?
It certainly
Ah, where would we be without Websters?
Build (n): form or mode of structure, especially bodily conformation of
a person or animal (The use dates to 1667) ;-)
Pete
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Please help the English language maintain some
little bit of coherence and do not use build as
a noun, as in Did we do a build today?
Better and already established as English,
and not techno-speak, is Did you
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Okay, time to throw up the BS flag
David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
I would
agree, but in the software world, build is a process or function and
'doing a build' is what you actually do to produce a program, sometimes
the command is even called 'build'.
Ahh, come on folks, we're hams. International Q signals have a very
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