Well, I'm sure we all remember (well, maybe not some of the younger members) the hippy movement which somehow was also linked to the jazz scene, and the use of "cool" to describe something particularly good, often music. There were drug-related connotations as well, weren't there.

What goes round comes round, and it's back, but with a much more generic approbative meaning - if I ask one of our analysts or progrmmers to do something, they'll often reply, "Okay, that's cool."

I grit my teeth every time I hear it. It's up there with "no probs" meaning "that's fine"!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...