all know that computing is a very complicated job, which involves many variables, any of which may fail and cause the desired process is not carried out. Therefore it is understood that computólogos and his acolytes want to make sure each step is carried out as scheduled. And one way to ensure that, of course, is with the redundancy in language. Thus, not enough to say that such and such a process performed, but they have to say that was "successful" to be convinced that, despite all their bungling, they achieved what they intended.
course, that as for the twisted mind of computólogo is essential to stay calm, to ordinary mortals is absurd. For example, copying a file from one folder to another and at the end of the process, see the following message: "The file was successfully copied." Go! In reality, tell me you copied the file, I understand that things went well. I would not doubt that there are actually copied, but the operation failed *. And when in doubt, may revise the target folder to verify that the file was there. If success is defined as a successful outcome, such as getting what you want, then there's this: I wanted to copy the file and copied it. It annoys me too much that I even congratulated for having succeeded in my endeavor.
One possibility: I copy the file, but it was not copied successfully. What does that mean? If a text document, for example, may lose a few paragraphs on the road, or fell off the accents around or chance until he lost consciousness, and reading it, I realize that it is a nonsense, far from their original intent. That might explain the inconsistencies that suddenly we see out there. Read a book like Christopher unborn and think, "Aha, Carlitos copied the file from your novel, but not copied successfully, why not understandable at all."
* This reminds me a contrario sensu, the joke that the doctor who announces to the family that the operation was a success but the patient died.
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