Re: [RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table)

2023-04-20 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Ihor Radchenko writes: > It looks like "backend" is more popular at the end. > > I will go for it everywhere unless there are objections. Done on main. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f81ba451a -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more

Re: [RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table)

2023-04-06 Thread Samuel Wales
backend sounds good to me as a native speaker, for a term of art for export modules or so, with defined api. if you are talking about back end code abstractly, i'd go for 2 words, but that's just me. i wouldn't rely on my sense for this one. On 11/22/22, Ihor Radchenko wrote: >

Re: [RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table)

2023-04-06 Thread Ihor Radchenko
alain.coch...@unistra.fr writes: > > I looked further, and the situation is not as simple. > > https://grammarhow.com/backend-back-end-or-back-end/, for example, > > claims that only "back-end" is grammatically correct. > > > > I am now thinking to do the following: > > 1. Use "backend" in

Re: [RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table)

2023-02-20 Thread Alain . Cochard
Ihor Radchenko writes on Mon 20 Feb 2023 10:07: > I looked further, and the situation is not as simple. > https://grammarhow.com/backend-back-end-or-back-end/, for example, > claims that only "back-end" is grammatically correct. > > I am now thinking to do the following: > 1. Use "backend"

Re: [RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table)

2023-02-20 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Ihor Radchenko writes: > I am looking at https://techterms.com/definition/backend, and it looks > like "backend" is the correct word we need to use here. Am I missing > something? I looked further, and the situation is not as simple. https://grammarhow.com/backend-back-end-or-back-end/, for

[RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table)

2022-11-22 Thread Ihor Radchenko
alain.coch...@unistra.fr writes: > PS 1: In the manual, I see "backend" and "back-end". So it is an > issue similar to the "subtree/sub-tree" issue you fixed a few days > ago, to the "heading/headline" issue that was reported recently, and > to many similar cases I met in the past. So I was