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barbaric grammarbarbaric grammarPosted Sep 15, 2006 4:37 UTC (Fri) by roelofs (guest, #2599)In reply to: KHB: Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems (a.k.a. DTrace) by dougm Parent article: KHB: Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems (a.k.a. DTrace) My one nit: the use of "root-cause" as a verb, though concise, is IMHO a horrible barbarism. Please be kinder to the English language. :) Amen, Brother! And thanks for clarifying what the author meant by that--my brain simply locked up on it; I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out how to parse it. (I actually thought it was the result of some ill-considered global search-and-replace operation. :-/ ) Greg
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barbaric grammar Posted Sep 15, 2006 18:06 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] I'm not even sure it's the right word. It looks like one of those naive management neologisms designed to make you think something that's been around forever is new. Lots of verbed words originate that way. From context, I believe the simpler, older term "diagnose" is what the article means. The reason I suspect management is that the main difference between a root cause and just a cause is that the root cause helps you figure out where you can change a process to stop similar problems from happening in the future. Just for engineering, a more proximate cause is usually sufficient.
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