Capabilities by any other name

[Douglas Crockford]

> > How shall we put the abusers on the defensive?
>
> You're about 13 years too late on this.  Changing the POSIX term abuse
> would now require revising several accepted POSIX and IEEE standards
> documents.  I think a better strategy is gentle humor of the form: "How
> effective can this technology be when the people who created it didn't
even
> know enough to use the established terminology correctly?"

"Capabilities" was never a good handle for this. The word is too generally
useful to mean any particular thing. Current usage (not abusage) renders it
worthless for your purpose, and it would be destructive to your goals to try
to reclaim it.

Save your reputation points for the important fights. Don't be arguing about
what words ought to mean. Instead, get a new handle. Maybe "object oriented
containment", or perhaps something better.

Stop using "capabilities" except when preceded by "historically, ".