> Mark, I am curious why you find this term so distasteful? Is it the algorithm itself or just a general objection to acronyms and the like? Or something else entirely?
I find this particular way of forming abbreviations particularly ugly and obscure. It is also usually unnecessary; looking at any of the messages brought up by Google, the percentage of 'saved' keystrokes is a very small proportion of the total count. And when it leaks out into the general programmer community, it just looks odd. For me, it is on the same order as using "nite" for "night", or "cpy" for "copy". Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Caplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicoders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "NE Localization SIG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:40 Subject: Re: Origin of the term i18n > At 11:11 AM 10/11/2002 -0700, Mark Davis wrote: > >Sorry to appear the curmudgeon, but I've never seen any but a relatively few > >people use this goofy form of abbreviation, and then for only a few of the > >words on your web page. A search for "normalization" and "Unicode" yields > >32,800 enties on Google. A search for "n11n" yields 3. > > > I have seen m17n come out of japan and I saw a similar term, algorithm misapplied in a totally unrelated context at http://www.christadelphian.org/MEMBERS/index.htm: > > "Welcome to the "inside" of C17g. > > that's Christadelphian.org shortened - there are 17 characters between the C and the g of the name... it saves a lot of typing" > > >Not a trend. > > Not a trend but a meme.... > > Mark, I am curious why you find this term so distasteful? Is it the algorithm itself or just a general objection to acronyms and the like? Or something else entirely? > > Barry Caplan > www.i18n.com > > >
