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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Alberto Cortes" <alcortes@coitt.es>,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:50:35 +0200
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> When i am looking for where in a man page is the function "foobar"
> explained, i don't want to care about if it is written with the first
> letter in capitals, or if it has been sliced in half by an hyphenation
> or if it has been pluralised... the computer should deal with these
> problems, not me.

you figure that out for 1 human language, perfectly, and you _will_ make a
fortune.

english is easy to learn [500 words] but a nightmare to do perfectly:

    i before e, except after c, except ...

the problem is difficult enough for [a-z] based languages.  wait till you
hit ideographic based languages [chinese, japanese, ...] ...