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Re:A green threading library with true concurrency for Python by stonemetal on Friday August 16, 2013 @05:14PM (#6226776)
Should I have thrown a literally in there? Literally Concurrent means at the same time. Parallel literally means non intersecting. I understand some dumbass has\is trying to co opt the language it doesn't mean I have to like it.

If one of them should mean one thing and the other the other why not have the one that literally means at the same time for the term that means at the same time. And have the one that means non intersecting mean threads of execution that are beside each other but not touching without lots of pain and suffering. Sorry, rant bit off.

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Re:A green threading library with true concurrency for Python by mercurial on Saturday August 17, 2013 @01:09AM (#6228231)
> I understand some dumbass has\is trying to co opt the language it doesn't mean I have to like it.

That's called a lingo or a jargon (in this case, programmer lingo), and it involves making up words or having a different definition for a given word in the correct context.

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