On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 18:39:41 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 20:20:47 UTC, Derek wrote:
Should we use American or English spelling? Color verses
Colour, for example?
I can go either way. I lean toward English spelling
though, simply because America is the exceptional
country (in the world and on the newsgroup too) in
this regard.
British English may be the more "official" English, with
American English as
a mere variation, but AIUI, the "de facto international
language" is
American English, not British English, as a result of the US
being a
long-time major economic superpower (for better or worse).
England used to
be a major superpower, but that was centuries ago, and from
what I can tell,
American English seems to be the preferred "de facto standard"
English now.
But, either option is better than "Clr" or "Col".
"clr" is the verb "clear" and "col" is "column" :)
In my programs I use British English because that's what I use,
and anything else looks 'wrong' to me. If the API is particularly
public, I usually provide an alias. Then again, I'm just a
colonial hick, so what would I know? :P
