[SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.8 for OpenJDK 7 Released!
Andrew Hughes
gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Thu May 2 10:32:49 PDT 2013
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> "Andrew John Hughes"<gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > In addition, IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow
> > builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric
> > architectures.
>
> You probably mean "exotic architectures"... How could an architecture be
> esoteric??? :D Well, maybe those with positive vibrations?
>
"Understood only by a chosen few or an enlightened inner circle.
The writing in this manual is very esoteric; I need a degree in engineering just to understand it!
Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application;" [1]
Replace "understood" with "used" ;)
What definition are you using?
There is a typo there though, which I'll correct in the on-line version :)
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esoteric
> [...]
>
> Have a nice day!
> Jacob
>
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