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I have just started reading a book on Unix and came across a sentence which says:
Fig. shows the 20,000 foot view of the organization of the GNU/Linux Operating System.
What is meant by the 20,000 foot view? Is it a technical term? Or is it just English?
"Cotton candy" (in some dialects "candy floss" or "fairy floss") is a puffy confection made of very fine strands of spun sugar:
It consists of air, a small amount of sugar, and tiny amounts of flavorings and colorings.
Prof. Haykel thus characterizes this view of the Muslim religion as sugar and air: overly sweet and intellectually vacuous. He believes it is mere candy for its proponents, what they would like to believe and would like others to believe, without theological or historical substance.
Best Answer
It's an expression that means to see a thing in its entirety, as a whole. To assess the OS not by looking at how individual parts work, but "how the parts work together and as a whole." It's to see things in a broad view.