On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> wrote:
On 06/01/2011 02:03 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Stan Goodman<stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> [06-01-11 04:53]:
It is not dishonorable not to use capitals.
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The offending no-caps message seemed to me to be clear and unambiguous. I don't think it is possible to argue that caps would have made it clearer; the effort to pretend otherwise seems pedantic. One would have to be leading an extremely sheltered life to magnify the importance of caps to that extent.
Distasteful? Scratching your ass? Distasteful? Crude? Ant-social? You can't be serious.
In addition to the examples given by Stan (Hebrew and Arabic) I could add that at least for 20 years (till the mid 80th) computers in Russia did not have lower case letters at all (the lower half of the ASCII code table was upper case Latin, as it should be and the upper half of the code table was upper case Cyrillic. All printouts were uppercase. Documentation, source code, everything. Everybody just got used to it. (BTW, it was particularly funny when we first tried Unix (16-bit BSD for PDP11) back there. Unix was the first system that mostly used lower case, so we had Cyrillic letters instead of lower case Latin. What a mess!). I also prefer proper capitalization, but would survive reading the "no-caps" or "all-caps" texts. -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org