On: The computers are fast, but you don't know it

[bheadmaster]

I don't know what's the bar for "isomorphism", but I know that the word literally means "same shape", so just because some nerd that got killed in a duel over a girl used the same word in a mathematical context doesn't give him dibs over its general use.

Unless, of course, system calls can be modeled as operators over sets. In which case, please tell me how.

[morelisp → bheadmaster]

In normal use of the term, a function's shape is its type signature; at the very least its in and out arity, and usually even more specific.

[bheadmaster → morelisp]

Well, in my case I used it to signify same behavior in terms of process/goroutine communication. I think it's "specific enough" to warrant the use of word "isomorphic".