Warp wrote:

>   In software the usual versioning terminology is that an "alpha" version
> is one which still doesn't have all the planned features, ie. features are
> still being added, while a "beta" version is a version of the software which
> has all the features but still lacks complete bug testing (ie. it "should
> work" but there may be still bugs left).

Interesting. I always thought alpha means "completely untested, might 
not even compile", whereas beta means "well, gee, I *think* it works, 
but I haven't tested it that much yet..."

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