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From: "Mike Smith" <kld_msmith@earthlink.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/20
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Kaz Kylheku <kaz@helios.crest.nt.com> wrote in article
<650kf8$smt$1@helios.crest.nt.com>...
> >> in Tcl or Awk.  
> >
> >Shouldn't that be AWK, since it's named after the authors?
> 
> Touche! :) And TCL is also an acronym, is in not? Tool Command Language
or some
> such thing.

They're both acronyms, but I've seen them widely (couldn't help digging up
that word again ;-) used without capitalization.  Sort of like scuba, which
is an acronym, but is very often not capitalized.

--Mike Smith