[ On , April 8, 2003 at 17:33:30 (-0400), Jed Davis wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/dist/am-utils/fsinfo
>
> Yes, but Donald Knuth says:
> 
> : Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen,
> : but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For
> : example, people used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead
> : of ``nonzero'' and ``software''; the same trend has occurred for
> : hundreds of other words. Thus it's high time for everybody to stop
> : using the archaic spelling ``e-mail''. Think of how many keystrokes
> : you will save in your lifetime if you stop now!
>    -- http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

I find I have very little sympathy for people who only wish to save
key-strokes without regard for readability.

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