AJAX and FPCGI

[Fairlight]

At Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:05:41AM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect John Esak was observed uttering:
> 
> > ... [...]  instantiating  ... [...]
> 
> ????
> 
> Maybe you meant "Instanitiating"???  I knew I read this list for a reason.
> If this *isn't* a word yet.... I vote that it should be placed in the
> lexicon immediately.  What a perfect combination of words and ideas.  I'm
> stealing it for my own use and telling everyone I invented it.
> 
> I will accept its derivative form "insta-initiating" as a legal spelling, as
> well.
> 
> :-)

Well, I couldn't see you not knowing a non-gaming word I do, so I checked
because I thought I was losing it...multiple people and I have used it many
a time in that context.

Appears it's not the way I (or you) -quite- take it:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/instantiating

Personally, I like our version better.  But I can't take credit for it.
In the way I use it, creating an instance or particular incarnation of
something (in this case a program), I nicked it off someone else.  Best
guess is EverQuest or World of Warcraft, where special parts of the
worlds (dungeons, guild halls, etc.) are "instances", identical but
specially created for a person or group to let them do task-specific things
without interference.  I applied it to specific runtime instances of
the same binaries/images of programs without much of a second thought,
honestly.

My suspicion, based on the type of players that I hung around with in each
game, was that I nicked it from one of the more technically aware players
in reference to the Guild Hall instances in EverQuest, which appeared
something like 7 or 9 expansions in.

Heck, I'm just glad, after reading that, that you understood what I meant!
After reading the formal definition, I feel a bit ignorant--I never had
cause to look it up, as to me it's -always- meant what I meant by it...
I can't believe I never had cause to even question it before now.  Unreal.

Well, now I know.  And in knowing...hell, I'm gonna keep using it the way I
have been.  It suits my sense of eccentricity.  :)

mark->
-- 
"I'm not subtle. I'm not pretty, and I'll piss off a lot of people along
the way. But I'll get the job done" --Captain Matthew Gideon, "Crusade"