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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 08:22:07 -0700
From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Alberto Cortes <alcortes@coitt.es>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Let me put it to you this way: the first letter of a sentence
is capitalized. As Doug said when we talked about this,
'the' isn't capitalized either, but we capitalize it at the
beginning of a sentence to aid the reader.

If you dislike the convention, avoid putting functions at
the beginning of a sentence.

-rob