On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:19:28AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > My above mentioned observation is the practice by the people who build > Debian tends to prefer using lower case. I do not know root cause of > it. My guess is Unix gurus like lower case. Unix is not PDP-11/VMS (or > DOS) world where capitalization is more popular. > > As you may know, capitalization practice is more popular in American > English while Brits tend to use lower case for many popular acronyms.
As someone from the UK, I'm slightly bemused by this. UK English capitalizes acronyms and other abbreviations just as much as US English does. Television is "TV", not "tv"; compact discs are "CDs", not "cds"; and so on. You may have been given a different impression by individuals, but that's likely to be the effect of generalized Internet slang, not standard UK English. The convention seems to have been "buzz", "rex", etc. since the early days. The most likely reason, as you said above, is that this is Unix and the name of the directory was in lower case. I speculate that it might also have been to avoid confusion with Pixar's "Toy Story" characters. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
