On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:22:07PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:04:03PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > the fact that "the original guys said it's a daemon, explicitly not a > > > Christian demon" and here's you're saying "yes it is." :-) > > > > Er, no. I'm not. I'm saying that Christian demons are derived from Greek > > daemons; that isn't the same statement as them being the same thing. > > > It's a subtle point, granted. > > [Picking nits here] > > Picking "demon" names to describe "daemons" only seems to be a good > choice if they are closely related. Either it's a poorly descriptive > name or you *do* believe they are the same.
It's a poorly descriptive name, because (if you look back at the origional
post), there *are* no names for proper daemons.
Demons are the next closest thing, and do have names.
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