Comments on Latest OPC draft -- Miscellaneous areas.

Charlie Clark charlie.clark at clark-consulting.eu
Thu Apr 5 11:23:40 CEST 2018


Am .04.2018, 22:40 Uhr, schrieb Francis Cave <francis at franciscave.com>:

> The Oxford online dictionary defines the verb “preprocess”, and gives  
> the following example of its use in the gerund form:

Specifically within the context of computing (another gerund),  
preprocessors are commonplace, and hence preprocessing is that which is  
done by them. I suspect the origin maybe the pipelines and processes that  
were developed for work on batch systems before data would be handed over  
for "processing" on the system.

Charlie
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