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The title should be all caps. From this page [1]: > Note: DJGPP is spelled all upper case when it would normally be capitalized, and all lower case otherwise.
by tn1 3y ago
The title should be all caps. From this page [1]:
> Note: DJGPP is spelled all upper case when it would normally be capitalized, and all lower case otherwise. It is never correct to spell it ``Djgpp''.
[1] https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html
- pronoiac 3y agoI emailed the mods.
- bmacho 3y agoI hate when the creators of a word make it irregular in English. Are there other words with irregular capitalization?
- ale42 3y agoIs it a word or an acronym? Or neither?
- seritools 3y agoDJ's GNU Programming Platform
- bmacho 3y agoA word. I also believe that names that don't contain any whitespace are all English words. DJGPP is an irregular one.
- janet-catcus 3y agotheir word, their rules. or would you start another jif/gif-kinda war over this with the author? XD
- bmacho 3y agoI personally follow the "I am the user, my rules" when it comes to language rules :P. It is at least as strong as "their word, their rules". Also I can see that Paul Graham's "my website my rules" is even stronger than mine or DJ Delorie's, so Djgpp is also correct (if not by the Gods, then by fist).
- jhgb 3y ago> their word, their rules That strongly reminds me of "it's spelt Raymond Luxury-Yacht, but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'".
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- torstenvl 3y agoThe G is from graphics [ɡɹæfɪks]. Additionally, word-initial single G before short I is always [g] instead of [dʒ] in native English: gift girl give gibbon gimlet gizzard gilded git gimp giddy gig gimbal. The exceptions are borrowed French words: gin (le gin), ginger (le gingembre), giraffe (la girafe), giblet (OF: gibelet).
- janet-catcus 3y agoit is funny how just mentioning it starts another instance... the power of christ compells you!
- Sharlin 3y agoHuh? It’s clearly an initialism and meant to be pronounced "dee jay gee pee pee". FBI is not written "Fbi" in English orthography.
- croes 3y agoAn acronym DJ's GNU Programming Platform (DJGPP)
- zephyrfalcon 3y agoAn acronym. The "GPP" is the DOS-ified spelling of "g++"; the '+' was not (officially) allowed in MS-DOS filenames. The DJ stands for the first name (not the initials, apparently [1]) of the project's originator, DJ Delorie. Although: "Since C++ is integral to gcc, djgpp no longer stands for "DJ's G++" but probably stands for something like "DJ's GNU Programming Platform"." [2] [1] https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/ https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/ [2] https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html
- billpg 3y agoDOS: "One of our commands allows separation of filenames with a + symbol, so we need to prohibit that character." "Couldn't we rework that command to not use + separators?" "No, far better to take that character out of consideration." Unix: "Filenames can use control characters. I don't care if that makes pipes between commands really complicated! Add an option for NUL-separated filenames if you have to."
- ale42 3y agoAhah... it was long ago the last time I typed a command like this... copy /b file1+file2 output
- bmacho 3y agoThe linked site starts sentences with "djgpp 1.05" and "djgpp 1.06", so maybe the software name has a different irregular capitalization than version names, which stay lowercase no matter what.
- keepamovin 3y agoYeah, that's really creators' fault. /s
- Sharlin 3y agoWhat exactly makes you think it’s a word when it’s clearly an initialism? Do you also write MS-DOS as "Ms-dos" or BBC as "Bbc"? (Or NATO as "Nato", though that one actually has better grounds to be written like that, being an acronym rather than an initialism – in some orthographies acronyms are indeed written like proper nouns.)
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- bmacho 3y ago> What exactly makes you think it’s a word The definition of the word word. > when it’s clearly an initialism? Then why does its creator write it all lowercase? > Do you also write MS-DOS as "Ms-dos" Yes.
- Sharlin 3y ago> Then why does its creator write it all lowercase? It's written consistently in all upper case in the copy text at https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/. When it's written in all lowercase, like in the title, that's a stylistic preference that you can disapprove of if you want, although it's an incredibly petty thing to care about. > Yes. Well, that's your prerogative, but it's against standard English orthography. Acronyms and initialisms that refer to proper nouns are spelled all uppercase in English. FBI, NASA, WHO, GCC, HSV, NY, no "Fbi", "Nasa", "Who", "Gcc", "Hsv", or "Ny". You'd never get the latter versions past any remotely competent copy editor or grade school teacher. As an example of different orthography, in standard Finnish NASA would indeed be spelled "Nasa", but FBI is still FBI and DJGPP is still DJGPP.
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- bmacho 3y ago> It's written consistently in all upper case in the copy text at https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/. And consistently lowercase in the article linked in the post I was answering. There is 10 years between the 2 links, seems the author changed their mind about introducing words with forced irregular capitalization.
- croes 3y agoBy your logic NASA, NATO, CIA, FBI etc. DJ's GNU Programming Platform (DJGPP)
- bmacho 3y agoHere there are more examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Comparing_a_few_examples_of_each_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Comparing_a_few_exampl... Apart from organizations, I'd capitalize only the first character for most.
- marcus0x62 3y agoThe author has a page[0] wherein he notes his legal first name is "DJ" and that it is not appropriate to spell it in lower case, insert spaces or periods, etc. Also on that page, directly above that admonition, is an image with his name spelled in lower case. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 0 - https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/ https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/
- dang 3y agoWe don't usually do that (e.g. Nvidia not NVIDIA is standard in HN titles) but I've uppercased it (belatedly) now.