From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Allegro CL 6.0 Trial Edition Date: 02 Nov 2000 02:13:42 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3182120022325904@naggum.net> References: <39fac869_1@goliath.newsfeeds.com> <8the57$6i$1@bob.news.rcn.net> <39fc7544_5@goliath.newsfeeds.com> <3181874056716443@naggum.net> <3a005596_4@goliath.newsfeeds.com> <3182090954163806@naggum.net> <87hf5r185g.fsf@qiwi.uncommon-sense.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 973131505 1573 195.0.192.66 (2 Nov 2000 02:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Nov 2000 02:18:25 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:3068 * Boris Schaefer | Would you mind explaining it a little earlier than May, 2001, or | give away the Message-Id of some article where you explained it. | I'm genuinely interested in your reason for this change. Well, what I have explained several times is why randomly upcasing letters is a very bad thing to do, especially if the randomness has only _some_ systematic elements to it, such as that the word just happens to be the first in a sentence with no other reason to get upcased. However, people being what they are, the resistance to improvements that can be easily explained and even understood undermined the goal, and so I decided to move to published quality on USENET, too, even though it is mostly initial draft quality and thus should look like it. That is, I have some code in Emacs that lets me avoid that silly initial capital letter, unless it really should be capitalized because of the word, not the position, while typing, turning it into the loser-friendly initial-capitals-anyway style before posting, but after saving the local copy. #:Erik -- Does anyone remember where I parked Air Force One? -- George W. Bush