Re: Why's it a sandbox?

[Frederic Brehm]

At 08:26 PM 8/18/2004, Doug Lee wrote:
> Hehehe...I think "sandbox" is a cool term and never thought of it as
> at all demeaning.  "Sandpit," on the other hand, quickly made me think
> maybe someone was trying to be politically correct or something.
> Personally, I much prefer "sandbox" over an overzealous attempt to be
> PC any day. :-)

If we really want to be PC, we'll have to get rid of all of those offensive 
terms: execute, kill, abort, trap, dump, ...

:-)

I like the term "sandbox", too. I've never heard an EE complain that the 
term "breadboard" demeans them as bakers. Lighten up!

Fred



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