Consider a task (a computer science term), which can have three states:
- not yet started (queued)
- started (running)
- finished running
What word would be more correct for third state: "complete" or "completed"?
UPD: this word will be used as a table cell value in a column named "state".
Answer
Complete is kind of a tricky word to describe a task, because that word implies that a task can reach a pre-defined end state that meets certain conditions or criteria. But in programming, a task is usually much simpler than that. A task doesn't usually have any end state beyond that it ran OK or didn't run OK. And so I think completed -- just meaning "finished" or "done" -- is a better term to describe a task that is done running.
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