On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 05:10:05PM +0100, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> Bruno did not invent the term "dovetailing" nor is he the only person >> to use it in computer science. A simple google search will show you >> this. I know you're a smart guy and understand the metaphor, so you're >> just complaining for the sake of complaining. Do you also disapprove >> of the use of a sewing term to describe a type of computation >> (threading)? >> > > I was a little puzzled by the etymology of "dovetailing" when I first > heard it, as I knew about the carpentry term. However, it apparently > comes from tilers, who describe a pattern of laying tiles as > dovetailing. And that analogy makes more sense.
Ok. The analogy felt natural to me, looking at pictures like the first one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_joint I think some people also use the term for the traditional way of shuffling a deck of cards, which also makes sense. In any case, it's an established computer science term. Wolfram uses it in "A New Kind of Science", for example. Cheers, Telmo. > Cheers > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
