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Those abbreviation decisions were made in the early 1970's. How does that indicate the non-obviousness of deciding when it is or is not appropriate to use abbr
by cellularmitosis 11y ago
Those abbreviation decisions were made in the early 1970's. How does that indicate the non-obviousness of deciding when it is or is not appropriate to use abbreviations today?
- JadeNB 11y agoI was writing from the point of view of someone who finds Unix abbreviations perfectly acceptable (as compared to my comically abrogated SmallTalk / Objective-C (I don't even know which) invocation above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990803), which I'd say is clearly not acceptable). Certainly, my argument will not be convincing to someone who doesn't share that point of view.