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Subject:RE: term need: regarding software development From:"Donald H. White" <dwhite -at- jrtcllc -dot- com> To:"'Simon North'" <Simon -dot- North -at- quintiq -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:36:55 -0500
I've often thought that "extensible" is a creation of an ... "engineer." One
for whom neither "extendable" nor "extensive" were sufficient to describe
the concept of a system of meta tags that may be extended in an ever-more
extensive library.
Why not "expansible" to describe the ability of practitioners to expand the
library into infinity?
Use of the word, as opposed to the TLA (three-letter abbreviation) almost
always causes me to gag, a tendency that I fight constantly. Except, of
course, when in the company of like-minded (and right-minded) colleagues. (A
group that appears to be ever more extensible, by the way.)
Cheers,
Donald H. White
Sr. Technical Writer/Editor
James River Technical Communications LLC
804.795.2914 mailto:dwhite -at- jrtcllc -dot- com
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