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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/16
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dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

> (Hacker English, on the other hand, demands that words with 
> intrinsic casing (gcc and GCC, for example) keep that casing even at the start
> of a sentence.)

... which I find rather ugly, I must say.  Another reason not to use the
all-lower-case convention for identifiers.

I find myself going to some trouble to avoid starting a sentence with a
case-senstive name -- "The 'gcc' command compiles Ada programs.", rather
than "'gcc' compiles Ada programs.", which is ugly, or "'Gcc' compiles
Ada programs.", which is wrong.

- Bob