Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:44:12 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation |
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:59:14AM +0100, Sander wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote (ao): > > Last night I've been browsing a little more through Dijkstra's papers, > > and in a completely unrelated paper[1] about a now obsolete computer I > > found that "prolaag" is a neologism coming from "probeer te verlagen", > > which means "try and decrease". > > "probeer te verlagen" translates to "try to decrease". > > "try and decrease" would be "probeer en verlaag".
I know, but that's how Dijkstra translates it. I guess he knew what he meant.
Erik
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