Talk:HorizonVirtual:Terminology Conversion Guide
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trey_palmer of the horizonvirtual Yahoo! Group provides the following resources for computer terms:
- http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/index.php
- http://whatis.techtarget.com/
- http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0006024.html
- http://www.csgnetwork.com/glossary.html
- http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html
- http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html
Some standard D20 terms I'm looking for Virtual equivalents for at the moment are:
- Magic (in the sense of the single generic term for rewrites and rewriting).
- Poisonous (as in something that is naturally dangerous to programs; term needs to relate back to the Virtual term for poison, "codeeater". The term should reflect "poisonous" in the sense that a nightshade berry can be poisonous to humans, not because someone added a poison to it, but because poison is formed naturally within the berry as part of its processes.)
- dispelling/dispelled (i.e. negating the effect of an already-executed rewrite). Restoring? Debugging? Something along the lines of correcting code.
- Cantrip (a basic rewrite)
--IMAGinES 17:15, 10 Jun 2005 (PDT)
Igtenio's brilliant suggestion of replacing "Dispel" with "Undo" hs been incorporated into the conversion guide. He's also suggested "Corrupted" as a replacement for "Undead", which makes sense to me.
--IMAGinES 19:20, 18 Jun 2005 (PDT)
Igtenio and I have been batting some suggestions for a replacement of "cantrip" back and forth. The best we've been able to come up with are "Quickie" (his idea) and "One Liner" (mine), both of which have obvious drawbacks. Can anyone else come up with something?
--IMAGinES 00:53, 21 Jun 2005 (PDT)
How about "macro"? It doesn't appear to ber used anywhere else in Program Space, and its computing-based definition, an easily-usable string of code that executes a complex command, seems equivalent with what a D&D cantrip does.
--IMAGinES 01:00, 14 Aug 2005 (PDT)
