Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>: > The analogy with a photocopying machine is pretty good, but > i'm afraid this will play havoc with those who see "collate" in > terms of determining sort order. *ouch* Damn. Ping is right. He just blew "collate" out of the water, folks. > It's fairly clear to me that, of the names that evoke images > of some sort, only "parallel", "march", and "merge" are actually > accurate. "zip" and "marry" are nearly accurate except that they > usually give the impression that only two things are being joined. Well argued (and cool pictures, too!). I think parallel, zip, and marry are out for various reasons of connotative overload, so we're down to "merge", "meld", and "knit". -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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