On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:35:23PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> > It never really bothered me much either way ...
>
> "Bothered" is the wrong word. The problem is confusion between ISC BIND and
> the Unix syscall bind(2). Which one any particular program is talking about
> is not always immediately apparent from context. :-)
Just to prove that I'm still the pedantic bastard I've always been,
I'll point out that BIND is an acronym, which when correctly written
(at least in the English language) is ALWAYS all in upper case,
whereas bind(2) refers to the verb of the same name, and as the name
of a function (system call) should always be in lower case (for no
good reason other than convention), eliminating the confusion. The
argument for the convention goes something like, "a function is called
by its name, so where it is called in lower case, its name is lower
case, and that is how it should be referred to in text."
Granted, RedHat spells the name of its BIND rpm all in lower case, but
history has shown how often they don't get it right...
=8^)
--
We sometimes catch a window, a glimpse of what's beyond
Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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