At 12:20 -0700 2002-10-11, Mark Davis wrote:
I think it's annoying as well. As is the tendency to prefix "e-" to everything in sight. There's a shop in Dublin which does "etail", apparently this is a reverse truncation of "retail". Ugh.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".
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