Mark, > > Mark, I am curious why you find this term so distasteful? Is it the > > algorithm itself or just a general objection to acronyms and the like? Or > > something else entirely? > > I find this particular way of forming abbreviations particularly ugly and > obscure. It is also usually unnecessary; looking at any of the messages > brought up by Google, the percentage of 'saved' keystrokes is a very small > proportion of the total count. And when it leaks out into the general > programmer community, it just looks odd. > > For me, it is on the same order as using "nite" for "night", or "cpy" for > "copy".
u shuld just be glad u wont live to see the day when netspeak roolz and ur goofy language is rOxXoRed! --K1n
