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Mongrel2, which is sweet, declares itself "an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server". and it's a pretty apt description.

while it's possible it's not the appropriate word choice here, i wasn't actually able to conclude that from the readme. i believed it to be agnostic because it said it was.

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I suspect that agnostic as a word has lost some of its meaning because of all the heat in the religious vs atheist debates. To some being agnostic on the issue of god is a cop-out (get off the fence!); to moderates being agnostic is a kind way of not offending either side. Either way it's become associated with a kind of pragmatic ambivalence about the issue.

And hence agnostic -> ambivalent -> disinterested (NB disinterested != uninterested) -> neutral. A chinese whisper of semantics if you will. The result being 50% of software platforms nowadays profess to not having a position on the existence/non-existence of a god!

Funny old world.

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